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The Broadlands close encounter case is one of the strangest and most unusual British UFO reports of the 1950s, combining a named witness, a royal-estate setting, a reported hovering craft, an apparent humanoid figure, a witness sketch, and a later statement from Lord Mountbatten himself.
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The Trans-en-Provence close encounter is one of the most famous French trace-evidence UFO cases, combining a rural witness, a brief reported landing, official site analysis, plant and soil anomalies, and long-running disagreement over what the traces really showed.
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The Valensole close encounter is one of the most famous French UFO cases, combining a rural witness, a reported landed object, two small humanoid figures, alleged paralysis, trace evidence, and an enduring official and cultural legacy.
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