Official, France:

In France, there is still no equivalent of the Freedom of Information Acts (FOIA) as it is now applied to some official UFO information in the majority of other countries, USA, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy etc. In France, and only in theory, information is supposedly possibly accessible 60 years after its date. (Thus 2014 for UFO cases of 1954 etc). It is only if you are "Somebody of Importance" such as TV journalist Jean-Claude Bourret in the 70's, or if you have "Friends Inside", or if you beg enough, that you can maybe pick up some documents.

Gendarmerie photographs of the alleged UFO landing trace in Marliens, 1967:

This document was reproduced in the ufological litterature long ago.

They are the first two photographs taken by the gendarmerie squad of Genlis, of a trace in a field with Marliens, allotted to the landing of an UFO on May 10, 1967.

It is said that a machine not identified would have been located by the military radar of Creil, and the study of the ground under the traces of the UFO showed depressions not very ordinary and the presence of a mauve powder. According to later analyses, the powder would have consisted of silica crystals having undergone a beginning of fusion with 1500 minimum °C.

More probably, the trace was caused by lightning or ball lightning.

The document:

The translated transcription:

PHOTOGRAPH #1 : GENERAL AERIAL VIEW.

The comparison with the van give an idea of the size of the inprint.

PHOTOGRAPH #2 : AERIAL VIEW OF THE INPRINT AS IT WAS DISCOVERED (Before any excavation or modification).

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