Sighting and false memory in Villers-Saint-Genest

Summary

One night in July 1990 a teenage girl and her brother were stargazing in Villers-Saint-Genest when a luminous dot approached and revealed a huge black craft. Frightened, they heard voices and hid under a desk for hours without getting a clear view. Fifteen years later, in 2005, the same person had a vivid dream in which she recalled boarding the object surrounded by six beings. Experts concluded this second account was most likely a false memory, involuntarily constructed from the stress and trauma of the original experience. The initial observation may have been real, but the data are too sparse to analyse. The case was deemed non-explorable.