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JULY 1947, FRANCE, AMFREVILLE LA MI-VOIE, MRS S.:

BRIEF SUMMARY OF EVENT AND FOLLOW-UP:

In apparently the first two weeks of July 1947, according to a report collected late on May 30, 1972, by one M.B. Delabroye in Rouen and published in a 1972 ufology bulletin, a woman who remained anonymous, aged 56 or 57, saw an object already posed on the road at 2 km from Amfreville la mi-Voie, on the road to Rouen parallel to the river Seine.

The object was said to be within 100 meters of her, of oval shape, gray color with no crutches or landing gear, with some kind of circular aperture slightly at its back relative to the center. The size of the object was estimated to be of 1 to 2 meters in height.

Near that object, the woman said she had seen two beings of probably not more than 1 meter in height, who seemed busy at something but the woman did not understand what they were doing.

The woman was on her bicycle and approached the place, and when she was at one hundred meters she went down the bicycle and rang the bicycle's bell. The two beings turned around as if they saw her then. They immediately rushed to the object and got in by the aperture. The object took off silently and vertically up to a hundred meters in altitude, remains motionless for a while, while oscillating, and then went away fast ("à grande vitesse") taking the direction of the south-east.

BASIC INFORMATION SUMMARY:

NARRATIVES:

[Ref. gl1:] CHARLES GARREAU AND RAYMOND LAVIER:

The two authors report that according to "Phénomènes Inconnus" #4, in July 1947 at 3 p.m., Mrs. S., cyclist, rode on "the road close to Rouen which skirts the Seine" and saw some sort of large rugby ball on the road, of 3 meters in length and 2 meters in height. Two small beings of a size of approximately 1 meter were busy near the craft.

The authors quote:

"While arriving at a hundred meters of this thing, I stopped, and I rung my bicycle's bell. The two little beings stood up again, saw me. They rushed into their craft. The craft rose vertically up to some hundred meters. It immobilized while oscillating for a few seconds, then went away at fast speed."

The authors indicate that Mrs. S. moved away, awestruck, wondering what devilish mischief she witnessed, since at this time flying saucers were not something known.

[Ref. fr1:] MICHEL FIGUET ET JEAN-LOUIS RUCHON:

The two authors indicate that the case occurred in the first two weeks of July 1947, at 3 p.m., 2 kilometers of Amfreville la Mivoie, close to Rouen, on the road skirting the Seine and joining Amfreville la Mivoie to Rouen.

The report was collected late, on May 30, 1972, by a M.B. Delabroye in Rouen and was published in "Phénomènes Inconnus" #4 in 1972. The authors add that it was mentioned later in the book "Face aux Extraterrestres" by Charles Garreau and Raymond Lavier in 1975 on page 86.

The reporter is said to be a woman, Mrs. S., who remained anonymous, aged 57, who saw an object already posed on the road at 2 km from Amfreville la mi-Voie, on the road to Rouen parallel to the river Seine.

The object was said to be within 100 meters of her, of oval shape, gray color with no crutches or landing gear, with some kind of circular aperture slightly at its back relative to the center. The size of the object was estimated to be of 1 to 2 meters in height.

The woman was on her bicycle and approached the place, and when she was at one hundred meters she went down the bicycle and rang the bicycle's bell.

The two beings turned around as if they saw her then. They immediately rush to the object and got in by the aperture. The object took off silently and vertically up to a hundred meters in altitude, remains motionless for a while, while oscillating, and then went away fast ("à grande vitesse") taking the direction of the south-east.

For France, as far as I can find out, the closest to Arnold's sighting of June 24, 1947, might be in the first two weeks of July 1947.

[Ref. cc1:] GILBERT CORNU AND HENRI CHALOUPEK:

The authors indicate that in the first fortnight of July 1947 at a day which remains vague, in France close to Rouen, a 57-years-old woman saw suddenly, posed on the road, without having seen it arriving, at a hundred meters of her, an object of oval form, mate grey color and without landing gear.

The object was a little larger than a car.

Two beings were busy in the vicinity.

The surprised woman got off her bicycle and actuated the bell, the two beings turned towards her, appeared to see her, and rushed in the apparatus through a visible circular opening on the side.

The machine then rose without noise, vertically, until a hundred meters of altitude, it hovered one moment while oscillating and disappeared at very high speed towards the South-east.

The authors indicate as source Phénomènes Inconnus #4 and Ch. Garreau et R. Lavier in "Face aux extra-terrestres", page 86.

[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:

In his catalog, Albert Rosales indicates that in Amfreville-La-Mi-Voie, France, in early July 1947 at 03:00 p.m. "Miss S" was riding her motor scooter when she saw an object in the road ahead. When she got within 100 yards, she saw that it was an oval of about 10 feet long and 6 feet high and saw two little beings of only 3 feet tall, dressed in gray with gray headgear, who were busy about the object. When she sounded her horn, they rushed back into the object through an opening of 20 inches in diameter; it rose 100 yards, oscillating, and departed like an arrow without making sound. Rosales indicates Charles Garreau as source.

POINTS TO CONSIDER:

The report is severely backdated as it came apparently only in 1972 for the first time. It apparently occurred in the days of the Kenneth Arnold sighting.

The witness was alone and remained anonymous. No counter-investigation seems possible.

LIST OF ISSUES:

EVALUATION:

Extraterrestrial visitors if the event indeed occurred and occurred as reported, which is not established as the case stands now.

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES:

* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.

• [---] ? Report by M. B. Delabroye in the Ouranos group ufology magazine Phénomènes Inconnus, #4, 1972
• [gl1] * "Face aux Extraterrestres", book by Charles Garreau and Raymond Lavier, Jean-Pierre Delagre, Mame, pp 85-86, 1975.
• [fr1] * "OVNI: le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochées en France", book by Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, Alain Lefeuvre publisher, pp 50-51, 1979.
• [gh1] * "Ephémérides des Années d'Espoir de l'Ufologie - 4", article by Gilbert Cornu and Henri Chaloupek, in the ufology magazine Lumières Dans la Nuit (LDLN), #253-254, pp 33-34, July-August 1985.
• [ar1] * "1947 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2002, at ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1947.shtml

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