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Reference number for this case: 7-oct-54-Hennezis. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. 106:] INVESTIGATION REPORT IN "OURANOS", 1954:
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INVESTIGATION REPORT |
| Eye Witnesses | LANSSELIN Claude et Françoise, âgés de 10 et 9 ans. |
| Time | 06:60 P.M. (sunset). |
| Atmospheric Conditions | Cloudy weather |
| Shape of Object | Disc. |
| Colour: | Red and Black. |
| Dimensions: | Undefined. |
| Duration of Phenomenon: | 10 minutes. |
With the night having arrived down now, we were seized with fright, and we fled up to our parents, without looking back.
Our father wen back with us on the location, but there remained nothing of our observation.
Mr. LANSSELIN [sic], Gamekeeper, father of the two children witness of the landing of a "S.V." [soucoupe volante, i.e. flying saucer], is a well considered man in the community where he lives.
His children attend the elementary school; they go to the church. Nothing in their talk let predict the narration of such a story.
The journalist of the regional daily newspaper "PARIS-NORMANDIE" had mentioned in his article of current October 12, that a "flying Cigar" had landed in Hennezis.
It happens, after complementary explanations by the Lansselin children, with a supporting drawing, that is was actually a CIRCULAR OBJECT, topped with a dome, and not of an object of oblong shape.
The description of the object by the young Claude as egg shaped thus created confusion. He simply wanted to indicate the red dome by that, which had intrigued him and drawn his attention.
A detail may have seemed odd in the account of the two children: that of the appearance of the two men.
Young Claude declares indeed:
(It is the young person, Claude LANSSELIN, who speaks, his sister Francoise confirms his statements.)
"It may have been 06:30 P.M., the day started to end, we were returning from catechism in Hennezis. The church is within an hour of walk of our residence, which is located in full wood, our father being a gamekeeper. For us to return there, we must follow dirt tracks through the fields and wood.
The weather was overcast, and we hastened to arrive before the rain started to fall.
We skirted a recently plowed and worked on field, when, turning the head, I saw at approximately 200 meters of the house of Marette, an object in the shape an "egg," of red color, the top pointed towards the sky, which exceeded from a depression separating the field from a small wood.
I immediately drew the attention of my younger sister to this odd object, which did not resemble any known farming machine.
Leaving my sister on the edge of the path, I approached to less than 100 meters of the object, and from the small eminence on which I was standing, I managed to distinguish that the object in the "red egg" shape rested on a sort of lid of black color.
At this time, I clearly saw, and my sister too, "two men of a normal size getting down from the egg." They were clothed all in black, and their face also seemed so (sic). They moved towards the lower part of the "lid".
[Ref. 1703:] HAROLD T. WILKINS:
The author indicates that on October 7, 1954, at 06:00 a.m., Claude Lasselin, aged ten, and his sister, Francoise, nine, of Henzies, France, were on their way home, passing a lonely field, newly plowed, when they saw in a hollow about 600 feet away, an object shaped like an egg, red in color, with its top pointing upwards.
They silently approached it, and at about 300 feet away, they saw that it had a sort of black lid, or cover. The boy said: "At this moment, I saw, and so did my sister, two men of normal height come out of the 'egg.' They were all in black, and their faces seemed black. We were seized with fear and flew home, and did not turn our heads."
Their father came back to the field, but the object had gone. Questioned by local authorities, the boy stuck to his story. "Everybody laughs at us, but we saw what we saw."
Wilkins indicates that his source is M. Marc Thirouin of the flying saucer journal "Ouranos".
[Ref. 654:] AIME MICHEL:
Aimé Michel indicates that on October 7, 1954, in Hennezis in the department of the Eure, Claude Lansselin, aged 10, and Françoise Lansselin, aged 9, witnessed the landing of a machine. Claude Lansselin thought that he saw two men, normal by the size and the aspect, close to the machine, but Michel says that the late hour, the clouded weather and the distance of a hundred meter were at play. He indicates that the two children "nevertheless" describe the machine as a kind of red and luminous half-egg.
[Ref. 105:] JACQUES VALLEE:
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203 Oct. 07, 1954 Hennezis (France). The two Lanssellin [sic] children witnessed the landing of a luminous, red object shaped like a half-egg, and saw two occupants who looked like normal men. (M 145) |
[Ref. 110:] JIMMY GUIEU:
Jimmy Guieu, SF writer, wrote before Jacques Vallée about this case:
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"At about 06:30 P.M., the two Lansellin [sic] children were witnesses of the landing of a red and luminous object having the shape of an egg posed on a black lid, and saw two occupants who resembled normal men, dressed in black and their face too. Seized by panic, they escaped to their house." |
[Ref. 152:] JACQUES VALLEE:
The author indicates that on October 7, 1954, in Hennezis in the Eure, the Lansselin children witnessed the landing of a round and luminous object which had the form "of a half of an egg." Two "pilots" were seen, who were of a normal size.
[Ref. 312] GERARD BARTHEL AND JACQUES BRUCKER:
The two authors note this case of October 7, 1954:
"Hennezis -27 - 06:30p.m.: witnesses untraceable after investigation. Have left the country and settled in a foreign country."
[Ref. 898:] GILBERT CORNU AND HENRI CHALOUPEK:
The authors indicate that on October 7, 1954, a strange vision took place in the end of the afternoon close to Hennezis in the Eure, where two children of 9 and 10 years old saw a black disc topped of a red cupola which was posed in a field.
Besides were two "men" of apparently normal size but dressed in black and with also black faces, who moved towards "the lower part of the disc."
The children observed the scene a moment, then seeing the night coming, they became frightened and run home "without looking back", a detail found in many testimonys of children and sometimes of adults which shows that the strange aspects of the lived displays which initially inspire curiosity start a panic very quickly.
The authors indicate that the sources are A. Michel, "à propos des S.V.", page 182; and J. Guieu, "Black Out sur les S.V." pages 199 to 202.
[Ref. 328:] ROBERT CREPIN, DELEGUE LDLN:
In a catalog of observations in the departement of Creuse, a brief record relates to this case. Nothing particular appears in it compared to the Ouranos report above. Lansselin was changed in Masselin and Hennezis in Hennesis.
[Ref. 134:] ALBERT ROSALES, HUMCAT:
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133. Location. Hennezis France Date: October 7 1954 Time: 1830 Claude, 10, and Francoise, 9, Lansselin saw a red luminous object resembling a "red egg," on the ground; Claude also saw two men clad in black and appearing normal looking descend from the object. The witnesses left the scene. Humcat 1954-71 Source: Humcat quoting Newspaper source Type: B |
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