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“Gaillac”

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The Marignane Airport Landing (Gabriel Gachignard)

October 27, 1952 · Marignane airport (now Marseille Provence Airport), Bouches-du-Rhône

UAP · Cigar · 11 sources

14Thinly documented

The Angel Hair Sightings at Oloron-Sainte-Marie and Gaillac

October 17, 1952 · Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Béarn (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), and Gaillac, Tarn

UAP · Cigar · 15 sources

28Thinly documented

Names2

Patrick Gross Person · 33 stories
A ufology cataloguer and archivist, Patrick Gross compiled case sources online and gave many of them a verdict.
angel hair Term · 3 stories
In the archive's reports, angel hair is a fine material that witnesses said drifted down from the sky.

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Reports of Unconventional Aircraft in French Africa, Corsica, and Wester N Euro FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1953-01-01· 6 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 3 …MANY WITNESS "FLYING SAUCER" FORMATION IN TARN, FRANCE --- Casablanca, Maroc- Presse, 29 Oct 52 About 100 inhabitants of Gaillac (Department…
- p. 4 …MANY WITNESS "FLYING SAUCER" FORMATION IN TARN, FRANCE --- Casablanca, Maroc Presse, 29 Oct 52 About 100 inhabitants of Gaillac (Department…
Reports of Unconventional Aircraft in French Africa, Corsica, and Western Europe FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1953-02-09· 3 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 2 …MANY WITNESS "FLYING SAUCER" FORMATION IN TARN, FRANCE -- Casablanca, Maroc- Presse, 29 Oct 52 About 100 inhabitants of Gaillac (Department…
FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 12 FOIA release

Federal Bureau of Investigation· 142 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 12 …29, 1952-For the second time in two weeks, 20 townspeople of Gaillac saw a series of white circular objects…
NZDF declassified RNZAF UFO files Document

NZDF / RNZAF via Internet Archive· 2010-12· 445 pages· 4 pages mention it
- p. 406 …According to cabled messages on October 29 last year, 20 residents of Gaillac, in the south of France, sighted a…
- p. 432 …About twenty residents of Gaillac, in the south of France, reported today the presence of a formation of white circular…
The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (Nicap) FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2001-03-12· 186 pages· 4 pages mention it
- p. 24 …zagged,angel's hair fell Oct.27,1952 Gaillac,France Hundreds Parent Object(cigar-inclined450)plus16 discs with"domes…
- p. 106 …Hale, Australia X X Visible objects traveled in pairs, as in Gaillac and Oloron cases cited above. Substance described as…