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| Date: | April 21, 1991 |
|---|---|
| Time: | 02:00 AM |
| Duration: | 01:30 |
| Department: | N/A |
| Location: | Wider suburb of Barcelona |
| Number of witness: | 4, including reporting person |
| Number of objects: | 1 |
| Shape of object: | Saucer |
| Other objects: | No |
| Sound: | |
| Color: | Dark |
| Flashes, rays: | Yes |
| Color of flashes, rays: | Yellow |
| Contrail, exhaust, ejection: | No |
| Color of contrail, exhaust, ejection: | N/A |
| Moon visible: | No |
| Clouds: | No |
| Rain: | No |
| Wind: | No |
[The original report in French is reproduced under this translation. Translation by P. Gross, FFU Committee.]
On the way for Cambrils (Spain) for A one week holiday with a friend, C[...], her 11 years old son L[] my 9 years old son A[] and myself, we had left Nantes at abour 05:00 PM. At one time, at about 02:00 AM, Adrien asked us information on what could be a machine that he observed, at the back, on the right of the car - L[] slept. We first paid no attention to it. He insisted. We still answered vaguely, really not knowing what he was speaking about: it was late, we habe been driving for several hours, we listened to music (Serge Gainsbourg)... We were anxious to reach our destination. We were to stop for a break: when we pulled down on the carpark of the "restauroute," we could see what intrigued Adrien: something circular surrounded by light - for us, it was obvious: it had to be some control tower, as we were near Barcelona..."
The coffee shop was located at some height (1 or 2 stages) and had a panoramic sight: the children held together, very irritated, close to the windows which gave on the carpark from where we could see a large tree where, behind it, this sort of tower was still there, motionless, and we could only see its lights through the branches. For us, adults, there was still nothing abnormal. We were alone, with the barman and did not even consider to question him."
"We stayed approximately 3/4 of an hour at this coffee shop. We took again the car to the highway. True, we stopped wondering what this tower was as it remained in our field of vision, anyway we convinced ourselves that we may be driving around it (as id we circled it) maybe because of the configuration of the road to this place. We moved away from the great urban zone of Barcelona and thus little by little it became obvious that it could not be a tower for we drove fast - 120/130 km/h - and it remained at our level. Then we stopped the vehicle and observed the phenomenon more carefuly: a sort of saucer surrounded by lights, completely silent, which hovered and remained with us, stopping when we stopped, starting again with we started again (3 times) - it seemed to follow us. We had doubts and and interrogation - A[] who had observed this machine for a long time already, had seen rays of light from its lower part. I wanted to take photographs, the photp camera was not appropriate, one would have needed a stand, a fixed point, a technique which I did not have. The photographs were uninteresting when developed."
"With my friend, we joked at the beginning then little by little we became frightened: there was very little people at this late hour, we had run out of rational explanations, the very excited children did not stop exclaiming... Then suddenly, this "object" oupasses us, is rose up in the sky at a fantastic, phenomenal speed... It is really at this time that we definitely realized that it had been a UFO phenomenon. In the morning, we looked in the local newspapers for photographs proving that others than us had witnessed it: nothing! On our return trip, by day, we observed the road carefully, the place where that had occurred, there was no tower, no building, no airport... Back home, I contacted a minitel (1) site: 3615 UFO, which put to me in relation to an organization (I do not remember which one) which only recorded our testimony."
"In short: the machine stopped when we stopped, was motionless behind the tree during our 3/4 of an hour of pause, followed us during 2 hours (we had a fright, retroactively), did not emit any noise, no exhaust. The lights inside it enabled us to see its contours."
"An simultaneously big and small unique experience which changed our vision: my son A[], who observed the phenomenon much longer than us, was then driven into a passion for astronomy. We documented ourselves, we could not have confused it with any known plane, even 11 years afterwards. A collective hallucination is to be excluded from the start: at the beginning, L[] slept and we have been doing things in this time period which required our attention and thus our consciousness. We have been tols about Venus - impossible, at that late hour. I have applied membership for 2 years to the ONDES association (whose president is Eric Raulet) and I am continuously documented about the UFO phenomenon - I have read Jacques Vallée (whom I admire for his scientific impartiality) as well as Jean Sider and also G. Bourdais."
"Cordialement et avec mes encouragements,
[*]"
[Note: Name, firstname, complete postal address, email address and telephone number were communicated by the witness to FFU]
(1) Minitel was a sort of french-specific ancestor of the Internet, hosting many services.