The 1954 French flap:

WE PUBLISH THIS CASE IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ORGANISATION
BORDELAISE DE RECHERCHES ET D'INFORMATIONS SCIENTIFIQUES
ON THE U.F.Os.

LANDING OF A U.F.O. NEAR MOUSSOULENS (AUDE) - September 23, 1954 - AT 3 AM.

Witness:Mister MARCELLIN ROUZEAUD, winegrower living in Moussoulens (Aude) - he was 42 years old in 1954.

Witness statements recorded in Moussoulens on September 4, 1967.

It was on September 23 at 3 a.m. in 1954 I was going to Carcassonne, and on the road, there, on the 629, what would I tell you? 800 meters before arriving on a straight line, I saw something on the road, posed in the middle of the road - near the gardens of Bernado, in the Cammas which we call "le Cammas de PEZENS"; I approached believing it was someone who was blocking the road: some vehicle a truck that had perhaps overturned or whatever: I approached, approached well, and I was still less than ten meters: I stop, and I go down to see what it was. As I approached a human form came out a man, so to speak.

- No door?

No... I didn't see where it came out from... It came out.. It was a shape that was, yes, like a stacker, a stack of sheaves, you see? half an egg, but quite tall: it was all the same six feet tall, see, roughly, it came back to me ever since... It took all the road width. So at that moment, as I approached, this human form there came out, this man, that was - he had only his head out, in a cloak, in a canvas, a tent, coming down almost to the ground, I mean, it didn't have sleeves, it wasn't pants.

- It didn't have a belt?

No, no, no, no belt, it was completely wrapped in this stuff there.

Even the feet?

Ah... the feet, I didn't notice how they were. The man was moving uh, like us; but, I asked this fellow if he wanted a helping hand, what had he done, to get out of there; he didn't answer me and I did a hand gesture to the craft, and with I believe, his hand, sensibly, or his arm which did not emanate, see, from his "thing", he pushed me, he held me back, he stopped me. By beckoning me, he had a talk, well, a talk... It was a sound of voice, but, as to understand it, I did not know if it was Arabic I do not know. I did not understand. I didn't understand. It sounded like a human voice, and to that name, the chap made a sign to me not to touch him; he

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pushed me, you know,... that at least you shouldn't touch that, like saying "watch out, don't touch that... step back!"

- With both hands?

- With one hand, no, no, with one hand, one hand... he made a sign to me: step back, don't touch that - be careful - like you would say "careful!"... Me I said "What is it?"... He left, he went to get, in his craft in this apparatus which was posed there, he went to take a kind of "witness", if you will... I call it like that, for me it has no qualifying word. He put it down on the grass on the side of the road... gesturing to me with his kind of hand that I didn't look at, see, if it was a hand a paw... distinctly I didn't look, see, if he really had fingers or whatever. I was in the presence of something that... You know, that there: he gestured to me at the moon, he beckoned me to the moon, to the shape of the moon, and onto the craft again. From the moon to the craft.

- To the craft that was landed?

- To the device he had just put down on the ground, yes, as if he said "at the next moon, at the same time, we will come back here with that", and that he should not be touched, like to the machine but what he was telling me, I don't know; and apart from that, that chap, when he had made all these gestures, I noticed that another one came down. About the same cut of a man, see; 1.30 m, 1.35 m maybe... I was not calculating the height of the man at the time, I tell you, one is rather surprised than anything else. And at that moment they both left I didn't see where they were going, neither by a door, nor. I expected that they would get their device. They got into it. I heard a noise like the rustling of a tent canvas you know, a flight of partridges going away... but not from its motor, see, it rose vertically, quite quickly, and when it was at a certain height, a distance, I won't tell you, but it was not excessive, it was maybe 200 m., not even. so at that moment, it went straight north, but then... like an arrow you know.

- Was it over?

- I didn't see anything anymore. I wondered to myself if I hadn't dreamed. I got to my car and drove away, I can't even remember if I turned off the engine or not. I don't remember you see.

- Were the car's headlights on...?

- Always the same, yes, yes, lit the craft, but... the color of the craft was much more powerful than the headlights, it stood out much more: the headlights were quite flooded.

- And yet, it did not illuminate the surroundings?

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- Ah! Ah! no ... It was a kind of phosphorescence when you light a match the phosphor that begins to burn: a blue like that, a bright blue. It was green.

- But how could you mistake that for a truck?

- Ah, I had this idea, you see. I said, "Is it a truck that fell? It's wrapped in a tent. Was it bales of wool?" I didn't know anything about it. I approached quite naturally as if it had been quite another thing to hold hands with these people.

- Was it a uniform color?

- Uniform, yes, all the same color, I didn't notice whether there was... It didn't strike me to say "yeah, there is a..." No.

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Yes, and that's all I can tell you ... Now as to this "witness", there is Mr. ALARY, there, the shoe seller from Carcassonne, They came with Mr. RIVES... because I didn't tell it until much later.. oh! 15 days later: I hadn't told anyone. It was while harvesting at my parents' house that I started spilling the bean... to the poor my father who did not believe that there was any of that, and I said "it was just a machine like that, it was only a flying saucer in my opinion, well when we heard about it later too, you understand, because I think there had been more others after that. And he couldn't believe his eyes. I told him, "Yes, you can believe it, because I was in the presence." And I had to tell the story and all that. As for the piece they had left me, Mr. ALARY took it, they claimed that they had had it analyzed, and they claimed that they had not found the material it was made of. I wanted them to give it back to me, and they never gave it back to me. They told me they had sent it to Paris for analysis. Now... I can't tell you anything. There was also Mister RIVES, but he's in Perpignan now; he ran the bar Edouard at the time (in Carcassonne); as I was doing in used car, I had my "office" at his place. I was at his house all the time. And of course, when he knew that, you know what it is, "you're kidding us, you tell us this, you tell us that..." I said: "no if you don't want to believe it, come on, you'll see" because I could not even believe myself my own eyes see, this story worked for me, and it was only by coming to lunch afterwards: I said:" all the same, it is necessary that you stop to see if they really left you something, if it's true, if you had a hallucination or whatever. It happens so fast, you know? It happened so quickly and then unexpected. I wondered myself if I had lived it. And I saw all the same that there was the "witness". From time

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to time, I would stop like that to see if it was still there and it still was there I hadn't told anyone.

- And you didn't dare touch it?

- Ah! I never touched it, no. It was as big as a chestnut, a chestnut.

- The same look?

- A piece of ground, but smooth on top, It looked like it was varnished, it was chubby you see? That's all I never understood, nor... it was later, when I really saw that there was the device there, I said: "dammit; it's true, you did not dream, nothing happened to you on the way, you lived it, and these people, they made a sign to you that you should not touch it, that they would come back. According to me, I had calculated that, I said, "he made a sign to the moon that when it would be like that again, they would come back to the place with that. Only the others have arrived. I had the misfortune of starting to tell it a fortnight or 20 days later. They came to see this famous witness. They started taking it away and then it was over. I didn't learn anything anymore...

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- At the time, I wasn't scared, oh no, it's not a personal scare, I mean, because I had been in the war before, I had seen a lot more than that.

- In the village, nobody but you saw "something"?

- No! So good, that here, I wasn't saying it because of that. I said to myself, "people, they will take you for a joker," there are many who did not want to believe it, there are some others who made me tell it: "It's true Rouzaud?" "- Yes, it's true". Such a thing like that, verbatim as I have just told it to you, I cannot say more nor less, it is thus.

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- No trace of smoke or smell ... When these two fellows left me, I thought they were going to get their machine, remove it from there to let me pass. You know, it goes straight up in front of me... and then after, go, direction: North.

- What was the weather like?

The weather was fine. The weather was rather cool. We could clearly see the moon ... / ... From what I heard, supposedly that a month later, the day before, the 22nd, near FANJEAUX, they saw a craft like that. It would have matched. Perhaps it was the same machine that would have wanted to try to find this same spot. These are my own reasoning ... / ... (About the abandoned object) - They had killed it, everyone had looked at what it was, they had even tried to scratch with a knife the knife didn't want this material, it was hard. ... / ... - I don't remember if I had stopped the engine or not. This happens just like when you come across an accident that has just happened: you don't notice, you just go and see what happens, you are a little panicked. You say: "what-

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is it? There is this, there is that, are three deaths? How did it happen? Who is it?" So, by the time to review all that: finished, end! It comes back to you, little by little, but... There are certain points that do not escape you... others... for example, the shap had hair, he did not have any, I do not know ... He had a head. Now the shape of his face, that, I cannot tell you. His craft would have lit all around, I would have said: "hey, it's weird, he's a phenomenon, he's not like us"... I didn't notice.

The craft was luminous on itself, but did not shed light... all I can tell you is that if there are people who joked about it... well me, I'm not kidding, I was there, my friend: I'm selling it to you at the price I bought it you know... Why, why, fuss about it? I know very well that I lived it well. But the same morning that happened: it was working me out hard, I was wondering if really... I said, "Even so, you came by car, you were in such and such a place, you didn't had syncope, you didn't "screw up" with the car, you wouldn't have arrived here on time. Maybe 5, 10 minutes you lost... just the time to stop, that it happens, that to start again: it's real, you lived it". And I was eager to see the little "witness": ah no! they left it to you, really, there it is. I kept that. It was working me out, that, all alone. I said to myself: look, but these people, they could have taken you, why not? It was something that was within their reach, there were 2 of them, see, they could have tied me up, they put me in the craft, they left, it was over.

- Didn't you think about it at the time?

- No, that's after I was like "but they could take you to their place, why not? That's something that happens!

- When he hit you in the shoulder, how high?

- No, no, it's at the front.

- The stomach?

- Yes, he touched me as if to say "don't approach, it's dangerous, don't approach" The guy, what was he saying in his jargon, I don't know nothing, but hey, he even made me back down, see, yeah. He pushed on me, I felt him, I felt he was touching me, the guy.

- And the other one spoke to you too?

- No, no: the second, I barely saw him when he (the first) wanted to put this tool down, he was waving to me at the moon: Jee, I said to myself, but there is another one. So much so that I looked rather at him, see, more often than at the first one: I was like: "What is he going to do this one?"

- He didn't do anything?

- No, no, no, he didn't even approach... no more, he was just outside of the craft. It was about the

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same kind of shape, same beast, if you mean, same human being ... They weren't beasts.

- It must have looked like a skittle?

- Head out, that's all, yes. You tale a sheet, see, you make a middle hole, you put it on, that's all it was.

- No arms, nothing?

- Nothing!

- But, when he ... How...? ...

- No, no no. In his cape, that it was big, well it floated ...

- He must have moved his hands in his cloak?

Yes, probably? ... I felt that he was touching me, but I did not see, see, emanate an arm, no... When he brought this device, I did not notice if he held this in one hand, if he had claws, if he had ... No... I can't say anything, I didn't see them. I didn't notice it.

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ADDITIONAL DETAILS ON THE
"ROUZAUD" CASE

- The day of the observation, the witness made the trip: MOUSSOULENS-CARCASSONNE in "his front wheel drive", to pick up a person from MARSEILLE at the station of that city: It was a business meeting - probably having some connection with the "used car"..

The place of landing is located two kilometers from Moussoulens, 800 meters from the intersection formed by the RN 113, and 8 km northwest of Carcassonne. The road forms a slight bend here. On the other hand, the roadway being 5 to 6 meters wide, we can estimate the wingspan of the craft at about three meters.

- Mr. Rousseau was born on September 20, 1912.

The people of the village are well aware of the story of the landing and, without having a firm opinion on the "Rouzeaud" testimony, consider him "intelligent, honest and... clever." Note that neither the newspapers nor the gendarmerie got wind of the case.

Additional sightings:

(cf .: "M.O.C." by Aimé MICHEL - p. 84 to 86).

9/22/1954: around 8 p.m. cigar of the clouds, red, above the Parisian agglomeration.

9/23/1954: observation: nocturnal (after 0:00) - witnesses on board a cargo ship: a dimly luminous reddish disc - immobility - with binoculars: various movements (rotation) and from time to time: very bright green reflections. Daytime observations in Le Puy, and in several surrounding villages.

FURTHER INVESTIGATION OF Mssrs
TASEI AND BAILLON
OCTOBER 13, 1968.

- October 13, 1968, little

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before noon, we went to see Mr. ALARY at his home, 60 rue Jean Bringer in Carcassonne. We learned that the son of Mr. Alary, theatrical director in Carcassonne had indeed conducted his personal investigation at the time. Mr. Allary was kind enough to phone his son so that I could finally complete the investigation (at the end of 1967, I had written, indeed, to Mr. Alary, without receiving an answer).

- The theatrical director appeared very embarrassed when I broached the question: first feigning total ignorance, he then confessed to me that it was lost in the mists of time", to finally assert that the small object in question was slag debris. The Paris laboratory would have returned only the result of the analysis, keeping the "stone" in their hands. Mr. Allary told me of the caution that should be observed before affirming anything: he did not want to give me any personal details on the "ROUZEAUD case".

As a conclusion, here is what we assume, Jean-Claude and myself:

1) - Mr. ROUZEAUD witnessed the landing of a "U.F.O."; in the same way he saw 2 small beings near the craft: the details provided by the witness coincide indeed nvec those that the "ufologists" know of testimonies notably after September 23, 1954).

2) - It is conceivable that having actually seen something extraordinary, the witness sought natural support for his testimony, this being, moreover, a character trait of the peasants: I remember that during my first visit, to the home of the witness, having found only his wife, she told me to introduce the case "oh yes! the little device that "they" left him in the grass": this seems to prove the strong impression that this "additive" (artificial?) produced at the time.

Investigation by:
Mrs TASEI and BAILLON

3816: 1954/09/23 03:00 5 2:14:00 E 43:17:00 N 3333 WEU FRN AUD 8:6

MOUSSOULENS,FR:OVOID on N269:2 PSH EXIT:GESTURES:RE-ENTER+^+>>N:poss.traces

Ref#217 Jean SIDER: Le DOSSIER 1954 (2 vol.) Page No. 166 : ROAD+RAILS

Encounters with Aliens On this Day

September 23

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1954 - At three o'clock in the morning an ovoid-shaped UFO was sighted on Highway N269 in Moussoulens, France. Two human-looking occupants exited the craft, gestured, then re-entered it and the object took off, flying to the north. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3617; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 166).

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*Sep. 23, 1954 - At three o'clock in the morning an ovoid-shaped UFO was sighted on Highway N269 in Moussoulens, France. Two human-looking occupants exited the craft, gestured, then re-entered it and the object took off, flying to the north. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3617; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 166).

September 23 1954. 0300hrs.

MOUSSOULENS (AUDE : FRANCE)

Mr Rouzeaud (42) was driving from Moussoulens to pick up a friend from the Marseilles to Carcassone train, along Rte 269, when turning a bend, at the RN 269/RN 113 crossroad, he saw, 10m away, something blocking the road. It was a sort of half egg shaped object, from which a human form, wearing a cape, and whose face was hidden emerged. The stranger gestured to Rouzeaud not to touch the machine, and to back away. He also interpreted the gestures as meaning the being would return at the next moon. This being was joined by another figure, who seemed female, about 1.3-1.35m tall, her face was also covered. The two beings re-entered the craft in a way R could not understand, and the thing took off with a rustling sound. Some days later he found an object the size of a chestnut at the scene. It was passed on to an acquaintance for analysis but was not seen again.

Gross 1954. citing Sider 1997 p168 citing Alain Gamard citing Orbis 1 citing GEOS International 2 p5 citing investigation by Francois Taset and Jean-Claude Baillon in 1969