The Close Encounter Of Yvon Vildier – Another UFO Incident With Physical Evidence
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Marcus Lowth
- February 23, 2025
- 7 min read
- Expert Opinion
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- UFOs, Close Encounters
The close encounter of Yvon Vildier in France in the summer of 1975 is perhaps not one of the most dramatic but it is certainly discreetly one of the most credible, not least as it is one that resulted in the discovery of physical evidence at the alleged landing site. Moreover, the sighting was witnessed by at least two other people from different locations in the region.
Although the case is little known today, at the time, it gained considerable traction in the country, with even the local mayor issuing a public statement about the incident in support of the witnesses. The events remain largely a mystery today, but it shares many details that are found in other similar close encounter cases both previously and after.
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Marcus Lowth
Marcus Lowth is a writer with a love for UFOs, aliens, and the Ancient Astronaut Theory, to the paranormal, general conspiracies, and unsolved mysteries. He has been writing and researching with over 20 years of experience.
Marcus has been Editor-in-Chief for several years due to his excellent knowledge in these fields. Marcus also regularly appears as an expert on radio talk shows including Troubled Minds and Unexplained Radio discussing these topics.
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I recall hearing about this incident in 1977, when I lived in Paris for school. Someone in one of my classes mentioned it during a break and that the young boy was still being ridiculed. What was really strange was, that years later (1986), back in California, I was leaving a friends house in Hermosa Beach at about 11:30PM, going home to to my apartment in Hawthorne, when, in Manhattan Beach, I witnessed a very dark matte object silently hovering over the “strand”, absolutely silent, with blueish-white illumination aft and beneath. It was darker than the night sky over the ocean. A guy in a car at the red light was frantically pointing at it through his sun roof. It went out to sea and I lost sight of it, but a sail boat decked out with Christmas lights out towards Malibu suddenly went dark. The following day I called Vandenburg AFB and was told I saw a commercial aircraft, nothing more. I worked in the aerospace field, so I know what I saw wasn’t a commercial passenger plane. LAX was in the general proximity to this, but the Strand has very little lights and this thing was just so black it stood out. And it was huge, judging by the formation of the illumination, it may have been trapezoidal in shape. Vandenburg gave me the standard BS “You saw nothing, ma’am” response. I’m not a looney, nor was I even interested in UFO’s (at the time). That incident changed my perspective. It wasn’t even Black File drawing board futuristic aircraft, which I was well aware of. This was a craft from somewhere out there. Yvon and the Madame’s saw what they saw.