Note that I am currently looking into this report in more detail and this should be viewed as an information dump prior to a full report.
Lumières Dans La Nuit (Lights in the Night) is a French UFO publication that has been around for decades and is certainly far more reputable than Flying Saucer Review. LDLN presented the investigation report by Serge Sorinas for France Ufologie in 1995 and this account is based on that.
The witness in this case is a married woman having asked for anonymity, she is a mother of 4 children and employee in a company (not named per confidentiality). At 2330hrs on the 3rd June, 1992, the sky was perfectly clear and starry and the temperature was fine. The witness was driving home in her Citroen BX car after working all day. The journey from work to her home being 30 kilometer and this was a journey she had undertaken for many years.
The witness was in her car in Mélesse, 12 kilometers to the north of Rennes, at the location "Le Cormier" on the communal way 107 at 1 kilometer to the north-north-east of the borough. This communal way is between the secondary road D26 which joins Saint-Germain-sur-Ille to Mélesse, which is roughly in the East-West. It is bordered in the south by a large pasture, defined by a row of large trees, which is lot 486 of the land register and which belongs to the farm Le Cormier which is in its South-Eastern angle. Approaching the crossroads of D26 and VC 107, her attention was caught by a strong red light. It was hovering above the row of tree separating lot 485 and lot 486.
She was somewhat surprised but supposed that it was nothing more than the airplane warning light of some crane, and she continued driving by the communal way skirting the lot. As the witness looked more closely she noted that the powerful light came from two "headlights" of a stationary craft hovering at this place, and that this craft also had a white light at the back. Out of curiosity, she slowed down and stopped her car a hundred meters further along the road for a better view.
The investigator quotes the witness as saying that when she pulled off the road the craft was already there, stationary above a farm, and that it gave her the impression of being on watch. Then, after a few moments, the object began to move in her direction, gently, rather high at the start, and that when it came down, she was able to see the interior. The object had descended to a few meters from the ground and a distance that she estimated as 15 meters from her.
The object was made entirely of transparent material, it did not have any structure or support and it should be noted that this type of object has been noted before but in quite obscure reports. She could quite clearly see what she described as a dashboard with white and green lights on it. Behind this dashboard the witness could see a bald person with a grey one piece outfit with a collar. Asked for more precise details of the entity she stated that she did not pay too much attention but that he was approximately 1.10m tall with yellow skin, a head without hair and some kind of breathing device.and that she thought of military operations because the outfit made her think of the army and thought that it must be a helicopter but rejected this idea since she always drove with the window and so should have heard the noise one makes. In fact to make sure that the object was not making any noise she even turned the car radio off and remember that her car was stopped at this time so any noise would be quite clearly heard.
The witness had by this time become slightly worried since she could find no obvious explanation for what the object was and so, calmly, she started to drive off. The object followed for some metres before, suddenly, it was no longer there; she looked in her rear view mirror and saw neither the object nor any light.
The witness continued on her journey and arrived on the Rennes road, at the D82, which she travelled along for 2 kilometres towards the South at which point she then again saw the object, in the form of a red light. This light moved away and was "already far, very far" at the tower of Cesson. She found it unthinkable that this craft could carry out a trip of such a distance in such a short amount of time, estimated at 2 minutes approximately.
The investigator points out that the witness could not have confused the Cesson transmitter tower light for the unknown object since she had seen the light of tower separately from the light of the object. Two distinct light sources.
On her way to work the next day at 1400hrs., the witness drove past the location and noted that the top of a tree where the object had been hovering had completely died and looked like it was "cooked". The witness was quite adamant that she had not noticed the tree looking like that before the incident and so the investigator questioned the owners of the farm and they found the state of the tree odd and, as the witness stated, had not noticed it like that before. It was noted that the remainder of the tree was in perfect health.
fig. 3 The place where the witness stopped her car for better observing.
On the same day as having spotted the tree damage the witness had contacted the Gendarmerie at Hédé by telephone with the aim of obtaining information on what she had seen. Her statement was not filed so presumably someone either did not take it too seriously or adopted a "nothing we can do about it" attitude.
The investigator was very clear that the witness seemed to him to be a balanced, rational, person, with a very marked sense of observation and that her eyesight appears excellent; she does not need spectacles and that she sees very well in the distance. These facts he managed to note during a visit to the locations of the sighting. Her estimates of the distances also were confirmed by the use of maps.
It was also noted that the witness's knowledge of the subject of UFOs was very limited, coming mainly from reports she heard about and TV shows. She insisted that her anonymity should be preserved and in fact only agreed to talk to the investigator because one of her colleagues at work was an acquaintance his so vouched for him.
As included here (the best copies I could get) the investigation report is illustrated with photographs of the location of the observation and two maps indicating the travel of the witness, the various spots of observation.
There is no mention of missing time which is what I thought the sudden disappearance of the object meant. However, there is no indication of this therefore it appears that the light vanished/went out or the object moved away at speed so fast the witness thought it vanished. It is interesting to note that the witness was not thinking UFO but more army helicopter or something similar hence contacting the police and expecting to be told what she had seen. I stated that it was unusual that her report was not officially filed but taking it from the standpoint that the witness did not want anything but to remain anonymous it is likely that she decided against making it an official report.
At the peak of the whole Hopkins "missing time" and "Greys" one might have thought that this would be expected as the norm -it seems to have been in the United States- but no; we have a classic example of an object briefly observed and an entity within it. I know that this will disappoint a few people but abductions -and in many cases I do not think that we are even dealing with abductions- or on board experiences are rare compared to the number of UFO (craft-like) sightings. Even Patrick Gross on URECAT (normally a very sceptical fellow) states that:
"When I opened the file, with the primary source not available, I noted:
"The story is highly interesting, unfortunately its origin is not specified. As it stands, it may have been some anonymous reader's letter to the ufology magazine, with no follow-up investigation, no credibility."
"Taking into consideration source (Serge Sorinas and Lumières Dans La Nuit -THS) I later received, these comments have no grounds anymore, and we are left with a really more interesting, and investigated, case."
The conclusion given by him on URECAT: "Extraterrestrial visitors"
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