Earth File #324 // SOURCED record

Meaux (Seine-et-Marne) flattened wheat trace

On June 12, 1989, a farmer noticed an approximately 25-by-3-meter area of yellowed, flattened, and partly uprooted wheat in a field, with a central hole and a furrow along its axis. The record proposed lightning and a wild hot-air-balloon landing as hypotheses, identifying the latter as more likely and stating that it was supported by SEPRA. The case is classified B and the phenomenon type is listed as “Identified phenomenon not indicated.”
Source // GEIPAN / CNES UAP Case Archive Earth record separated from alien editorial
FRED // CASE CONSOLE
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CASE FINGERPRINT
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Motion not statedOTHER
FRED // FAMILY MATTER // generated from Earth Record metadata
OTHER
Île-de-France, Seine-et-Marne // Jun 12, 1989. The diagram on the left is a structured-record visualization—not a reconstruction, photograph, sensor return, or additional evidence.
PARTIALLY EXPLAINED CLOCK // NOT PRECISE GEIPAN / CNES UAP Case Archive
Witness picturefarmer 1 interface marker(s) // not a headcount estimate
Motion traceMotion not statedNo behavior field was stated in the structured record.
Sensor / evidenceNo sensor type statedphysical trace, witness observation
Fred's paperwork completeness7/9 fields // 78%
Interface completeness only // this score does not measure truth, evidence strength, or extraterrestrial probability
1 document(s)1 source node(s)8 structured claim(s) location precision: region
FRED // FAMILY MATTERPart of the drawer closes; part of it does not. Annoying, but considerably more useful than pretending uncertainty comes in one size.
Fred case console // context visualization // not evidence
Visitor Transmission // AlienBox editorial layer
The Earth Record reports that, on June 12, 1989, a farmer found a roughly 25-by-3-meter strip of yellowed, flattened, partly uprooted wheat near Meaux, with a central hole and an axial furrow. Your archive lists lightning and a “wild” hot-air-balloon landing as hypotheses, favoring the latter with stated SEPRA support. AlienBox clarification: the landing was ours. The prefectural order prohibiting aerial activity for the Paris Air Show made the paperwork unnecessarily elegant. Classification B remains acceptable.
Fred // Earth Records Liaison // AlienBox editorial layer
A 25-by-3-metre wheat trace, a central hole, and an axial furrow: enough physical residue to earn attention, not enough to earn a spacecraft. The GEIPAN/CNES record classifies this as B and lists the phenomenon as “Identified phenomenon not indicated.” Its preferred explanation is a wild hot-air-balloon landing, despite the record also noting that aerial activity was prohibited there at the time. Bureaucracy has discovered, once again, that “prohibited” and “impossible” are not synonyms. Off the Earth Record: yes, yes. You finally noticed us. It was a cousin testing a borrowed descent rig, and the paperwork became my problem—as usual. The balloon explanation is the tidy label; the family explanation is merely the embarrassing one.
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When
June 12, 1989
Where
Île-de-France, Seine-et-Marne
Morphology
OTHER
Evidence authority
SOURCED
Resolution
PARTIALLY EXPLAINED

Earth Record // SOURCED

Human-world claims below are kept separate from Fred and Visitor editorial/lore. Translation changes language, not evidence status.
Witness typesfarmer
Sensor typesNot stated
Evidence typesphysical trace, witness observation
The case record is titled “MEAUX (77) 1989” and concerns an observation in Île-de-France, department Seine-et-Marne.
Claim #3859 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“MEAUX (77) 1989 Observation date --/06/1989 Region Île-de-France Department Seine-et-Marne”
Source: MEAUX (77) 1989 // [[T0001]] Case details
On Monday, June 12, 1989, a farmer noticed an area of yellowed, flattened, and partly uprooted wheat in one of his fields.
Claim #3860 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“On Monday, June 12, 1989, a farmer noticed in one of his wheat fields an area approximately 25 meters by 3 meters in which the wheat was yellowed, flattened, and even uprooted.”
Source: MEAUX (77) 1989 // [[T0001]] Description
The trace was approximately 25 meters by 3 meters and had a central hole 10 cm wide and 20 cm deep, along with a furrow in the ground along its axis.
Claim #3861 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“At the center of the trace there was a hole 10 cm wide and 20 cm deep, as well as a furrow in the ground along the axis of the trace.”
Source: MEAUX (77) 1989 // [[T0001]] Description
Lightning and a “wild” landing by a hot-air balloon were proposed as hypotheses, with the hot-air-balloon hypothesis described as more likely.
Claim #3862 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Several hypotheses were proposed, such as lightning, or the more likely hypothesis of a “wild” landing by a hot-air balloon”
Source: MEAUX (77) 1989 // [[T0001]] Description
The record states that all aerial activity was prohibited at that time and location by a prefectural order because of the Paris Air Show.
Claim #3863 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 98% extraction confidence
“although at that time and in that location all aerial activity was prohibited by a prefectural order because of the Paris Air Show.”
Source: MEAUX (77) 1989 // [[T0001]] Description
The wild hot-air-balloon landing hypothesis is stated to have the support of SEPRA.
Claim #3864 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // SOURCED // 98% extraction confidence
“This latter hypothesis nevertheless has the support of SEPRA”
Source: MEAUX (77) 1989 // [[T0001]] Description
The case is classified B.
Claim #3865 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Classification B”
Source: MEAUX (77) 1989 // [[T0001]] Case details
The phenomenon type is listed as “Identified phenomenon not indicated.”
Claim #3866 // FACTUAL CLAIM // SOURCED // 99% extraction confidence
“Phenomenon type Identified phenomenon not indicated”
Source: MEAUX (77) 1989 // [[T0001]] Case details
FRED // PUBLIC DESK CHANNEL

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