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Trans-en-Provence Landing Site and Biochemical Trace Case

January 8, 1981 at approximately 17:00 local timeTrans-en-Provence, Var, France

Farmer Renato Nicolai witnessed a saucer-shaped object land briefly in his terraced garden, leaving a circular mechanical impression with striated tire-like bands and biochemical trauma in wild alfalfa.

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Encounter · Official Physical Landing Trace Analysis

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CLM-004501reported
“The analyses of plant samples taken at the site indicated that they were not dealing with any type of [known] aircraft, or even a helicopter or military drone, which were hypotheses that were considered and analyzed.”
The COMETA Report: UFOs and Defense - What Should We Prepare For?
SRC-002051 · COMETA Report (1999), Chapter IV, p. 21 · PRIMARY SOURCE
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Encounter · Official Plant Biochemical Trauma Effect

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CLM-004502reported
“In fact, the chlorophylls, as well as certain amino acids of the plants, exhibited significant variations in concentration, variations which decreased with the distance [of the plants] from the center of the mechanical track.”
The COMETA Report: UFOs and Defense - What Should We Prepare For?
SRC-002051 · COMETA Report (1999), Chapter IV, pp. 21-22 · PRIMARY SOURCE
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CLM-004503reported
“According to Professor Michel Bounias of the ecology and plant toxicology laboratory of INRA who performed the analyses, the cause of the profound disturbances suffered by the vegetation present in that ecosystem could likely be a powerful pulsed electromagnetic field in the high frequency (microwave) range.”
The COMETA Report: UFOs and Defense - What Should We Prepare For?
SRC-002051 · COMETA Report (1999), Chapter IV, p. 21 · PRIMARY SOURCE
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