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Allier, France · 1994-10-18 · from the GEIPAN archive

A foul smell in Allier, France

On October 18, 1994, around 2 p.m., a gendarme on leave, while picking mushrooms, discovered on the ground a circle made up of stone fragments resembling cinder. The leaves in contact with the stones had taken on a greenish sulfur tint. As night was falling, he decided to return the next day but could not find the spot again.

What stood out: a foul smell

 

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This is an official case file of GEIPAN, the French space agency's unidentified aerospace phenomena office, machine translated from French. The original text and the full investigation file are at geipan.fr. We reproduce it with thanks and remove anything on request.