Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: A VERY CLOSE ENCOUNTER
In the spring of 1954, a huge craft was observed at very close quarters near Bruyères, in the department of Vosges, northeastern France. The incident occurred one afternoon towards the end of April in a sparsely inhabited forest area at Bois-de-Champ.
Roger Mougeolle and Gilbert Doridant were engaged in logging when suddenly they heard a loud noise ‘like the sound of a train passing over a metal bridge’, a precursor sound reported in a number of such cases, followed by silence. Then three huge, cigar-shaped objects came into view. ‘Two passed over in total silence but the third, equally silently, slowly descended over the clearing where the two men were,’ reported Joel Mesnard, who interviewed Mougeolle.
Its surface was quite smooth, devoid of any structural appendages or protuberances, and its general aspect was metallic and its colour grey. Its size was absolutely enormous. Over 200 metres long, Mougeolle thought, and perhaps 80 or 100 metres wide and equally high, though he thought the height was a bit less than the width. The monster came to a halt with its base just a few tens of centimetres from the ground.
Terrified, Doridant fled, and never again entered that part of the forest.
Mougeolle, however, convinced that this was a conventional airship, stepped forward boldly until he was right underneath it. Then he put up his hand and actually touched the craft, which felt smooth and cold, like steel. To see what would happen, he struck the craft with the flat of his axe (Fig. 13). It made a dull sound, ‘such as you get when you strike a great piece of steel’, but instantly Mougeolle was hurled a distance of six metres or so.
‘Lying where he had been thrown, against the foot of a rock, Mougeolle found himself unable to move,’ related Mesnard. ‘What had hurled him was no blast of air or anything like that, but something totally unknown to him, something that seemed to act uniformly upon every part of his body. And now, as he lay there, he realized that what was keeping him pinned down was the monster itself . . .
The huge craft remained in this position for a few minutes, almost blocking out Mougeolle’s vision, then it lifted and disappeared. Fortunately, the witness suffered no ill effects from his exceptionally close encounter