Did a luminous flying saucer land in Marignane?

[Atlas]

Did a luminous flying saucer land in Marignane?
by Constant Vautravers

The fireman on duty

Monday evening around 9 p.m., consequently in middle of the night, a moonless night since the new moon began the next day, fireman Chesneau was of guard at the large Boussiron hangar.

In the sort of quadrilateral that the airport and its tracks are forming, and the edge of the pond of Berre, the Boussiron hangar occupies the most distant angle towards the West; its giant doors look "transversely" at the main track.

The fireman was standing at the entry, all the more attentive since Boussiron houses a new transportation craft, the Hurel-Dubois prototype with wings of very great lengthening. From where he was, leaned on the concrete walls, the fireman, well sheltered from the mistral which blew looked at multicolored clearness of the track.

A round and luminous craft

Suddenly, he saw, coming from the South, "a round and luminous craft" which went down at moderate speed in what he judged to be the direction of the track. The machine soon touched the ground, rebounded slightly a few times.

However one does not await a plane at that hour, in Marignane. Perhaps this was a mislaid airplane, some private plane deprived of on-board radio? This happened once with an English plane.

By professional consciousness, the fireman alerted the tower telephonically. But while he phoned from the inside, the craft had to disappear. The calls of the tower of control remaining without answer the duty officer was alerted. Left by car, all headlights lit, he crossed the section of track and its surroundings in all directions without finding anything.

Assumptions

The night proceeded while assumptions were made. Was this a weather balloon? The apparent shape and the whiteness that could have been mistaken for a vague luminosity could incline towards this answer. But the characteristic of a balloon is to follow the wind. However the wind (mistral) blew from the North-West, and the object came from the south...

The gendarmerie, guardian of the airport, had been alerted. And during their night rounds, the patrol had carried out searches too. Without success.

The following day morning, on board a jeep, an investigator returned on the spot. No upheaval of the ground, no meteor crater. No trace of balloon either.

A score of metallic debris

On the other hand one was to collect, scattered on the track, a score of metallic debris among which several small long stems of about fifteen centimeters bent at an end and finishing at the other end by a ball, a little larger than a marble. Yellow metal traces, contrasting with the blackish gray color of the ball, let think that this one was like brazed on the stem.

We could not learn which to whom these remains whose nature and source remain to be explained were entrusted. According to some of our interlocutors they could be ends of plans of antenna, a kind of mass to ensure the tension of an cable-antenna of plane. Others do not recognize this origin.

Posted by Jacques Vallee
The same airport had been the scene of an earlier landing on October 27, 1952.

[Atlas]

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[mojo]

Hi Atlas,
Thanks for your efforts/energy & always check your historic & intriguing UFO postings, may I suggest a thread with all your posts in one spot and perhaps admin will create a sticky thread for current posts...