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C-000246CASE RECORD · CLASSIFICATION: CRAFTTERM-000160 (American-Football / Prolate-Ovoid Craft)

VALENSOLE RUGBY-BALL CRAFT (1965 REPORT)

Case-specific prolate/“rugby-ball” object reported by Maurice Masse near Valensole, France, resting on four legs plus a central pivot, fitted with a sliding door and departing with a whistle at very high speed. Landing-site marks were subsequently documented.

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// ARCHIVE SNAPSHOT
C-000246 / TERM-000160
PUBLISHED CLAIMS
9
VARIANTS
0
ENCOUNTERS
1
UNIQUE SOURCES
1
UNIQUE WORKS
1
HISTORICAL RANGE
1965
// RECURRING REPORTED CHARACTERISTICS
1 / RECORDS
SOUND EMISSION / 1
// EVIDENCE PROFILE
9 PUBLISHED CLAIMS
Reported9
HOW CLAIM STATUS WORKS
// REPRESENTATIVE VARIANTS
0 VARIANTS

No narrower variants are currently documented for this family.

// REPRESENTATIVE ENCOUNTERS
1 ENCOUNTERS
Valensole CE2/CE3
E-300246 · 1965
// SOURCE COVERAGE
9 CITATION LINKS
UNIQUE SOURCES
1
UNIQUE WORKS
1
PRIMARY SOURCES
0
CITATION LINKS
9
SOURCE RELIABILITY METHODOLOGY
// CLASSIFICATION NOTE

This family groups reports by recurring visible morphology. Membership does not establish that the underlying objects are identical, technologically related, or anomalous in origin.

Witness compared the object to a rugby ball; the existing prolate-ovoid/American-football term is reused as the closest broad morphology.