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Reference for this case: Mid-Oct-54-Saint-Martin-Belle-Roche.
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Under the title "Two Martians receive ... a handful of punches", the regional newspaper Le Quotidien de la Haute-Loire for October 18, 1954 reported:
"Taking advantage of the period of the grape harvest, two inhabitants of St Martin-Belle-Roche decided the other evening to disguise themselves as Martians and to play some good prank. They went under an extremely clever disguise to the residence of a neighbor. However the joke turned badly and our two accomplices, in spite of their disguise, were granted a number of hits, so much so that one of them had four cracked ribs. That is a quite unforeseen consequence of the epidemic of saucers and cigars."
[Ref. lqh1:] NEWSPAPER "LE QUOTIDIEN DE LA HAUTE-LOIRE":
Taking advantage of the period of the grape harvest, two inhabitants of St Martin-Belle-Roche decided the other evening to disguise themselves as Martians and to play some good prank. They went under an extremely clever disguise to the residence of a neighbor. However the joke turned badly and our two accomplices, in spite of their disguise, were granted a number of hits, so much so that one of them had four cracked ribs. That is a quite unforeseen consequence of the epidemic of saucers and cigars.
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Negative case, prank.
In ufology, a "negative case" is usually defined as a case that quickly had a prosaic explanation, either by the witness(es) themselves, or, in any case, without needing an explanation from ufologists.
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Saint-Martin-Belle-Roche, Saône-et-Loire, hoax, prank
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