Cussac,Cantal ( in August 29, 1967 )

Among the cases of UFO, Cussac's affair a particular place occupies because in 1978 a counter-inquiry was led, as example, at the request of the scientific council of the GEPAN. On August 29, 1967, at about 10. 30, on beautiful morning brightened up on the high trays of the center of France, two young children keep the domestic crowd. The dog which accompanies them warned that a cow gets ready to cross the low wall of the enclosure. The boy, thirteen-year-old in the time, gets up to make return the cow, when he perceives on the other side of the road four children whom he does not recognize. Surprised by what he observes, he calls his sister when he perceives, set back from the strangers, an extremely brilliant sphere. They realize then that it is not about children but about small black beings, the size of which should not overtake 1m20. Two of them are standing next to the sphere, the other one is knelt down in front of it and fourth, standing, holds in the hand a sort of mirror which blinds the children. The boy tries to call them, but the small beings get back then rashly to the sphere. The children see them rising of the ground and penetrating into the ball by the height, by plunging there the head the first. The sphere takes off with a whistling, then rises in the sky by describing a continuous helical movement with big speed. The dog barks, cows begin mooing and a very strong sulphurated smell fills the atmosphere. The counter-inquiry will begin in 1978 with investigators' team of the GEPAN and the members qualified outside councilors, among whom a former committing magistrate.

The landmarks of this counter-inquiry did not concern either the facts, or the story, but the new elements, such as secondary witnesses found on the scene, who brought supplementary indications and strengthened the credibility of the case. In particular, a policeman, who had gone on the scene at once after the incident, had found tracks on the ground in the place indicated by the children and noted the very strong smell of sulfur. Also, another witness demonstrated himself, recognizing to have been in an attic close to places, and remembering perfectly the noise of whistling very different from that of a helicopter of time.

Reconstructions of the scene, in the presence of the two main witnesses, confirmed as the descriptive stories as the circumstances which followed the observation. The children, in the time, evoked a strong smell of sulfur, but they underwent especially confusions of psychological nature, the eyes cried for several days; these facts were noticed by the family doctor and confirmed by their father, then mayor of the village. The magistrate, in the conclusion of this counter-inquiry, gave his opinion onto the witnesses and their testimony: " There is in these different elements no fault, no conflict which allows to doubt the sincerity of the testimonies, nor to envisage reasonably an invention, a trickery, or a hallucination. In these conditions, in spite of the young age of the main witnesses, and as extraordinary as appear to be the facts which they told, I think that they observed them really. "