Marignane, France: Customs officer sees cigar-shaped object with windows land on runway

At 2:03 a.m. customs officer Gabriel Gachignard observed a cigar-shaped object land briefly on a runway of the airport at Marignane, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, about 300 feet from him, producing a dull sound. The object was dark and had four lighted windows. When he ran toward it, it took off with a "swish" and a shower of sparks. The case is reported by Jimmy Guieu, Aimé Michel, Jacques and Janine Vallée, Loren E. Gross and Jerome Clark. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.