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UFO case file · UFO-0413

Orange entity encounter — March 1950

CE3France1950-03-01

Orange, Provence-Alpes-Cote-d'Azur, France

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Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Orange entity encounter — March 1950
Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Orange entity encounter — March 1950

Case description

This Orange entry preserves only a very brief catalogue statement. It places a reported close encounter in Orange, Provence, in March 1950, at approximately 1:30 a.m. The imported record attributes it to J. Bernard Delaire's UFO Register, volume 7, published in 1976. No precise day, witness name or original interview is supplied in the accessible summary. The statement says that an unidentified object and occupants were observed at close range. It does not describe the object's outline, size, colour, movement or landing, and gives no number or appearance for the occupants. It also does not establish whether they were seen through an opening or outside the object. Those omissions prevent reconstructing a specific saucer, a group of beings or a conversation without adding unsupported information. A modern chronological archive repeats essentially the same limited wording and the Delaire citation. That repetition does not constitute an additional witness or a new investigation. No fuller contemporary account or independently verified exact-case video was recovered in this review. The entry is retained as a historical research lead, with its limitations explicit. Its plate shows catalogue-research context and regional surroundings, rather than assigning imagined anatomy or craft engineering to a record that supplies neither.

Recorded details

Local time
01:30
Coordinate precision
LOCALITY
Date precision
MONTH_ONLY

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