Posted On: February 17, 2022

The year is 1965, the place, Valensole, France, the witness observed a landed UFO in his field. Near the UFO was two humanoid beings who immobilized him with an unknown device.

On July 1^st, 1965 at about 05:45 hours, farmer Maurice Masse was in his lavender field near Valensole, Basses Alpes, France.

At this time he heard a strange whistling sound. Stepping out from behind a heap of stones he saw an object shaped like a rugby football with a cupola on top, about the size of a Renault Dauphine car. It was standing on six legs, with a central pivot. Through an open doorway he could see two seats, back to back. Masse at first thought the object was a helicopter or experimental craft, but was then surprised to notice what he took to be two eight-year-old boys stealing his lavender plants. The "boys" were less than four feet tall, clad in fairly dark gray-green onepiece suits.

On seeing Masse approaching them they straightened up, and one of them leveled a "tube" at the farmer which immobilized him. Masse noticed that the two humanoids had large hairless heads, smooth white skin, high fleshy cheeks, large eyes that slanted away, pointed chins, and mouths without lips. They made a strange gurgling sound from deep within their throats as they communicated with each other. "They were looking at me, and must have been making fun of me," Masse said in an unofficial statement to Maitre Chautard, a local magistrate. "Nevertheless their facial expressions were not ill-natured, but very much the reverse." Masse said that in fact he felt a great sense of peace exuding from the beings.

 Shortly afterward the humanoids returned to their craft via a sliding door. The legs whirled and retracted, and the machine took off. It was quarter of an hour before Masse recovered his mobility. The ground where the craft had rested was soaked with moisture, although it had not been raining, and investigators found strange, geometrically spaced indentations. More remarkable was the fact that no lavender plants would grow at the landing site until ten years later.

Four days after the incident Masse suddenly collapsed, seized with an irresistible urge to sleep, and would have done so for twenty-four hours had not his wife and father woken him up. From his usual five to six hours’ sleep. Masse found he needed at least ten or twelve, for a period of several months. All those who investigated the case, including the gendarmerie headed by Lieutenant-Colonel Valnet, Maitre Chautard, and the mayor and parish priest of Valensole, concluded unanimously that Maurice Masse was telling the truth.

Resources: Above Top Secret, Timothy Good, 1988

My Take: I wonder what the beings shot Masse with? It paralyzed him and gave him medical issues for so long of a time.

Posted On: February 17, 2022

The year is 1965, the place, Valensole, France, the witness observed a landed UFO in his field. Near the UFO was two humanoid beings who immobilized him with an unknown device.

On July 1^st, 1965 at about 05:45 hours, farmer Maurice Masse was in his lavender field near Valensole, Basses Alpes, France.

At this time he heard a strange whistling sound. Stepping out from behind a heap of stones he saw an object shaped like a rugby football with a cupola on top, about the size of a Renault Dauphine car. It was standing on six legs, with a central pivot. Through an open doorway he could see two seats, back to back. Masse at first thought the object was a helicopter or experimental craft, but was then surprised to notice what he took to be two eight-year-old boys stealing his lavender plants. The "boys" were less than four feet tall, clad in fairly dark gray-green onepiece suits.

On seeing Masse approaching them they straightened up, and one of them leveled a "tube" at the farmer which immobilized him. Masse noticed that the two humanoids had large hairless heads, smooth white skin, high fleshy cheeks, large eyes that slanted away, pointed chins, and mouths without lips. They made a strange gurgling sound from deep within their throats as they communicated with each other. "They were looking at me, and must have been making fun of me," Masse said in an unofficial statement to Maitre Chautard, a local magistrate. "Nevertheless their facial expressions were not ill-natured, but very much the reverse." Masse said that in fact he felt a great sense of peace exuding from the beings.

 Shortly afterward the humanoids returned to their craft via a sliding door. The legs whirled and retracted, and the machine took off. It was quarter of an hour before Masse recovered his mobility. The ground where the craft had rested was soaked with moisture, although it had not been raining, and investigators found strange, geometrically spaced indentations. More remarkable was the fact that no lavender plants would grow at the landing site until ten years later.

Four days after the incident Masse suddenly collapsed, seized with an irresistible urge to sleep, and would have done so for twenty-four hours had not his wife and father woken him up. From his usual five to six hours’ sleep. Masse found he needed at least ten or twelve, for a period of several months. All those who investigated the case, including the gendarmerie headed by Lieutenant-Colonel Valnet, Maitre Chautard, and the mayor and parish priest of Valensole, concluded unanimously that Maurice Masse was telling the truth.

Resources: Above Top Secret, Timothy Good, 1988

My Take: I wonder what the beings shot Masse with? It paralyzed him and gave him medical issues for so long of a time.