Fort-Dauphin, Madagascar: Interior Ministry says cigar-shaped UFO crashed in marketplace
In August 1978, the Madagascar Interior Ministry announced that a UFO had crashed and exploded at night in the marketplace at Fort-Dauphin; Radio Madagascar said the cigar-shaped object had lit up the ground before plunging down.
Background
At night, according to an announcement by the Madagascar Interior Ministry, a UFO crashed and exploded in the marketplace at Fort-Dauphin. Radio Madagascar reported that the cigar-shaped object had lit up the ground before plunging downward. Local residents rushed out of bed to put out the flames. The claim was carried by the Cardiff Western Mail and later by several UFO periodicals. 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.