Case of the levitating horse! Cier-de-Riviere, France, 1954

On October 16, 1954, in the small village of Cier-de-Riviere, in France, a farmer named Guy Puyfourcat, age 22, was returning from the fields with his mare, whom he was leading by a bridle. All of a sudden, the horse became very agitated. Then, rising into the air from the side of the road and up from behind some trees and bushes, the farmer observed a gray colored pan shaped object, its diameter estimated at five feet. The mysterious gray object rose up to an altitude of approximately 50 meters, and then began to approach the farmer and his horse. As it flew low over them the horse became levitated into the air, an estimated three meters off of the ground. In the meantime, the farmer was forced to let go of the bridle.

Then the horse fell back to the ground, and for about ten minutes seemed unable to move. Finally the farmer was able to get the mare to stand up and walk about some, but it was trembling and stumbling as it did so, behaving in a manner that suggested it was quite fearful.

The UFO itself, after levitating the horse, quickly departed the scene at high speed. The farmer stated that he himself felt nothing unusual as the horse was levitated into the air.

Author James M. McCampbell, in his book Ufology, New Insights from Science and Common Sense (1973), theorized about the possible meaning of the described anti-gravitation force in this case and other similar incidents. For example, one witness felt himself being pulled toward a UFO, and in another episode a man walked partially underneath a hovering object and his arm under that portion of the craft was violently pulled up into the air by an invisible force and then thrust back down against his body. In a couple of cases trucks were lifted up off of the road. McCampbell noted that whatever force was responsible for these particular incidents it involved a force that acted vertically upon objects that entered a field between the object and the ground. In addition, McCampbell also noted that electrical conductivity must also be a factor as the force reportedly acted upon a horse, human flesh, and metals, whereas levitating rocks or dry sticks were not mentioned in these reports.

The village of Cier-de-Riviere is located ten kilometers from Saint Gaudens and seven kilometers from Montrejeau, Haute-Garonne.

At the time of this incident France was experiencing a tremendous wave of UFO activity.

References:

1. Passport to Magonia, From Folklore to Flying Saucers, by Prof. Jacques Vallee. Henry Regnery Co., 114 West Illinois Street, Chicago, IL 60610. 1969. ISBN: 0-8092-8330-1.

2. Anatomy Of A Phenomenon, by Prof. Jacques Vallee. Ace Books, Inc., 1120 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036. (By arrangement with Henry Regnery Co.) 1965.

Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 65-19161.

3. Ufology, New Insights from Science and Common Sense, by James M. McCampbell. Jaymac Company, 12 Bryce Court, Belmont, CA 94002. 1973. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 73-93488.

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