Renato Nicolaï and the Trans-en-Provence plant analyses (documentary excerpt)

0:00 on January 8 1981 in southern France there was only a single witness to that he was working in his small farm late one afternoon he heard a whistling he looked up and just above the trees was this strange craft it descended and landed 30 feet away in his garden he told his wife about it in the evening and she thought he was joking it went back in the morning to look at the area and they found traces on the ientists came out in a week or two and they took further samples of soils they also took samples

1:03 of plants and the analysis of the soil and plants were very interesting They carried out quite professionally and there was evidence of compression of the soil and there was a clear evidence of damage to the plants the kind of injury that could happen because of heating the microwaves for instance so there was good physical evidence in that case and moreover there were two kinds of physical evidence injury damaged the soil damaged the plants despite the physical evidence the small town of Tarzan Provence labeled the farmer as a flying saucer fanatic it was about five o'clock in the evening I was working in the fields when I saw a strange object

2:10 I tried to get closer I was about 30 meters from it when I saw it only when it took off 30 or 40 seconds later could I really notice its shape and form it is probably the first time that after a very well characterized event concerning a UFO there was a full scientific study showing that some changes were brought to the plants near the place where the UFO landed and that this biochemical changes were decreasing with increasing distances from the trace so that all the findings the biochemical findings could be put into equations and be mathematically characterized in a very accurate way then these findings were compared with

3:12 the same result obtained several years so that these controls led us to to realize that on the same area two years after the event or the findings all the things were recovering a normal shape a normal pattern of biochemical characteristics so it's now possible to say that in time and in distance all the biochemical findings are consistent with the description given by the witness and it is probably the first time in the world to my knowledge that such a complete set of data has been obtained on such cases of UFO landing on a fair in effect we were in the presence of an unidentified phenomenon which had been

4:13 witnessed and that had left traces in the soil and surrounding the environment