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Renato Nicolai

The Trans-en-Provence Case

November 9, 2026November 9, 2026 by Tommy Hayes
The village of Trans-en-Provence in the Var, southern France — a view of the town, not the field where the 1981 landing traces were found

About 4 min readOn 8 January 1981 a farmer in southern France watched a lead-coloured saucer land in his field — and the ground it left behind was scorched, compressed and chemically changed. Forty years later, no explanation has held.

Categories UFO & Beyond Tags France, GEPAN, Renato Nicolai, Trans-en-Provence, UFO, Unsolved Leave a comment

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