Bois-de-Champ, France: Logger touches landed cigar-shaped object, is thrown back
On an afternoon in April 1954, loggers Roger Mougeolle and Gilbert Doridant near Bois-de-Champ, Vosges, France, saw three metallic cigar-shaped objects; one descended over their clearing, and when Mougeolle touched it with his axe he was thrown about 18 feet.
Background
In the afternoon Roger Mougeolle and Gilbert Doridant were logging in a forest clearing near Bois-de-Champ, Vosges, when they heard a noise above them like a train passing over a metal bridge. They saw three metallic, cigar-shaped objects silently approaching from over a nearby hill; two passed over them, while the third slowly descended above the clearing and stopped a few feet from the ground. It was over 600 feet long. Doridant fled, but Mougeolle walked toward it and touched it; it was smooth, cold and hard like steel. When he touched it with his woodsman's axe he was instantly thrown about 18 feet toward a large rock and felt paralyzed for a few minutes until the object ascended and disappeared. Eberhart cites Joël Mesnard in Flying Saucer Review (1987). 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.