Libreville, Gabon: 1963

 I really must be sounding like a scratched old record by now but I will pass that off by using a current and VERY annoying phrase: it is what it is!

There is just one CE3K report for the African state of Gabon and, unbelievably, fifty odd years later it is still just a few lines -and Vallee at least quotes LDLN because if it was down to just his word I'd mark this as dubious.

In his catalogue of UFO landings, Jacques Vallée indicates that on December 25, 1963, at night in Libreville, Gabon, a fisherman witnessed the landing of a craft, from which a terrifying creature emerged.

It was humanoid in shape, spoke sounds he could not understand, left footprints on the sand, and went back to the machine and flew off.

Vallée indicates that his source are "147; LDLN 70."

Does anyone have that issue of LDLN (all my links to archives were lost when my laptop and computer died on me at the same time) or can shed any more light on the report?

After all this time I am guessing that the fisherman has passed away.

• jv1] * "Passport to Magonia - On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds", book by Jacques Vallée, Contemporary Books publisher, USA, 1969.
• [jv1] * "Chronique des Apparitions Extra-Terrestres", French translation of "Passport to Magonia", book by Jacques Vallée, Denoel publisher, France, 1972.