Roy Powers

The MINs collected soil and vegetation samples from the area where the whistling craft had landed, and when they examined it, they were stunned.

Michael Bounez, a botanist from the National Institute of Agronomy Research, was sent the vegetation samples, and it wasn't long before the MINs received an almost panicked call.

Like what?

Like what the hell did you do to it?

The leaf samples show a 50% reduction in chlorophyll pigment.

That can only be caused by significant stress, and that's only half of it.

The MINs concluded that the effects observed on the plants were likely caused by gamma radiation possibly created by an electromagnetic field generated by the craft as a means of propulsion and before you ask, you can't see the plants!

I don't know where they went!

It had a 50% reduction in chlorophyll pigments.

And also, it looks as if there'd been some kind of mechanical heating or electromagnetic effect.

That's fine.

One of the dandelions ate a scientist.

They got it back to the lab and it ate a guy.

It went, see more.

Yeah, listen, that was maybe a very dramatic way to say the vegetation had been altered slightly in a way that was suspicious.

Kit, these two cases are just two of hundreds of unexplained UFO encounters investigated by the G-E-I-P-A-N or the GPAN or the MINs.

They've covered some of France's biggest UFO cases, ones that we've investigated on this podcast before, such as the Valensole UFO encounter in 1965.

And now if you remember, this was a case also set in France that I believe was a double yes on the podcast.

Very recently.

But they've also covered so many other insane cases that I had never even heard of.