Quarouble and the Sleepers That Had to Be Replaced
On the night of 10 September 1954 a metalworker named Marius Dewilde went out to his barking dog in the yard of his house by the railway embankment near this village in northern France and, by his account, saw a dark mass on the track and two small beings in something like diving suits. A beam from the mass, he said, held him still for a minute. The next day gendarmes and railwaymen found depressions in the sleepers; a calculation from the strength of creosoted oak gave a load of thirty tonnes over a few square centimetres. Five sleepers were replaced. It is the first widely investigated case in France and the beginning of the French school of the subject.
Exeter and the Lights over Kensington Road
On the night of 3 September 1965 eighteen-year-old Norman Muscarello was walking along Route 150 outside Exeter when, he said, a large dark object with a row of bright red lights pulsing in sequence came over a field. He ran to the police station; Officer Eugene Bertrand drove back out with him and saw the same thing, and so did Officer David Hunt, who arrived after. The Air Force first attributed it to a Strategic Air Command exercise, which had ended an hour before the sighting. The case stayed in the Blue Book files as unexplained. Exeter is comfortable with it: since the 2010s the town has held a summer festival on the anniversary, with the takings going to the fire department.
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