UFO HOVERS OVER FRENCH NUCLEAR WASTE FACILITY

Reprinted from UFO Roundup, edited by Jim Trainor.

On Tuesday, December 9, 1997, security guard Michel Collot d'Ouvrard was making his rounds at the CARB nuclear waste storage facility in Penthe- les-Brienne, with his K-9 guard dog on a leash.

The plant is located near Brienne-le-Chateau, L'Aube department, in eastern France, about 180 kilometers (108 miles) east of Paris.

At 4:15 p.m., Michel reported, "My dog and I were at the center of the perimeter, when he suddenly began barking at an unusual presence some distance in front of us. I had difficulty seeing it because of the powerful searchlights on the nearby pylons. Then I noticed a yellow light apparently moving toward our position. It came from the southwest, from the general direction of the Foret d'Orient, between Piney and Vandeuvre. It had the appearance of a car's headlight beacon at a distance of 1.5 to 2 kilometers. But in reality it was much closer to us, perhaps at a distance of 300 to 400 meters (990 to 1,320 feet)."

"The luminous object seemed to halt for a fraction of a second, shot out a series of light beams, and then it followed the same flight path back to the southwest," he added. "Up in the sky, the luminous object was not moving but seemed to be larger. I had it in view for about 20 seconds."

On Saturday, December 13, 1997, at 6:30 p.m., two women working at the CARB plant "discovered in the sky the presence of two luminous objects at great height (a high altitude--J.T.)." They estimated the size of the UFOs as "four centimeters if at arm's length."

The women said the UFOs "had a dome on the top and four lights on the underside. The two objects left behind a luminous rectilinear trail, cut short, that looked like a giant neon tube."

"The first object suddenly departed to the southeast, towards 'La CARB,' while the other object remained in the area, flying around at heights varying from 30 meters to 300 meters."

Both sightings are being investigated by French ufologist Picot Sylvain. (Merci beaucoup aux Franck Marie et Banque OVNI pour ces nouvelles.)

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