Near Cambrai, FR being encounter — March 29, 1978

A later account places this episode near Beauvois-en-Cambrésis, in the Cambrai area of northern France, on March 29,1978. A teenage boy was supposedly travelling to a cross-country competition when he disappeared from the expected route. Versions disagree over whether he was walking to a bus stop or riding a bicycle after missing the bus, and whether his sister or a broader family search found him. He was reportedly discovered disoriented near a ditch or wooded slope. Subsequent recollections described four small men in green clothing and a luminous object, either descending toward him or already on the ground. The story also includes an alleged instrument puncture, a V-shaped mark, illness and dried vegetation. Those medical and physical claims are not independently established by the material examined. Even the hospital observation period varies between eight hours and eight days. The identified publication trail leads to Lumières Dans La Nuit 317 in May 1993, approximately fifteen years after the stated event. The source comparison found no available contemporary investigation or original medical file. The inherited midday time and firm southward departure therefore have weaker support than the basic date and region. This record preserves the reported sequence and its disagreements; the plate shows a safe, fully clothed opening scene without depicting alleged invasive contact.