{"id":11332,"date":"2015-02-14T03:17:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T21:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=11332"},"modified":"2018-08-12T13:40:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T07:40:51","slug":"bird-beasts-of-var-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2015\/02\/bird-beasts-of-var-france\/","title":{"rendered":"BIRD-BEASTS OF VAR: (FRANCE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/6233587\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/000000\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/out-of-this-world\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1120\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/out-of-this-world.gif?resize=100%2C99\" alt=\"out-of-this-world\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a>In 1962, on a desolate stretch of French road, a business man claimed to have encountered a gang of aggressive, bird-like beings, which not only blocked his car, but allegedly attacked him.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first account of this utterly unique close encounter was published in 1968, in the Vol. 14, No. 6, Nov.\/Dec. issue of the \u201cFlying Saucer Review.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11335\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/FSR_vol14_no6.jpg?resize=235%2C300\" alt=\"FSR_vol14_no6\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/FSR_vol14_no6.jpg?resize=235%2C300&amp;ssl=1 235w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/FSR_vol14_no6.jpg?resize=329%2C420&amp;ssl=1 329w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/FSR_vol14_no6.jpg?w=467&amp;ssl=1 467w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/>The report came from a man who was at the time described as <em>\u201ca young researcher from the southern part of France\u201d<\/em> named Lyonel Trigano. According to Trigano, the witness (who would be referred to only as Mr. S.) was \u201ca solidly-built man in his fifties,\u201d who ran <em>\u201can important garage in Herault,\u201d<\/em> France.<\/p>\n<p>Trigano interviewed the perturbed eyewitness, who &#8212; under strict conditions of anonymity &#8212; confided his perplexing tale to the young ufologist. Here is the witness\u2019s own account of the event (which was translated by John C. Hugill and published in the FSR under the title: \u201cStrange Encounter in Var\u201d) and, like all good tales of terror, this one begins on a dark and stormy night:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cOne evening in November, 1962, I was driving along a minor departmental road in Var. It was a dark night, and raining in torrents, so that I was driving with my lights full on.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11175 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/foggy_road3.jpg?resize=300%2C240\" alt=\"foggy_road3\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/foggy_road3.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/foggy_road3.jpg?resize=696%2C557&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/foggy_road3.jpg?resize=525%2C420&amp;ssl=1 525w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/foggy_road3.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The trip had been thus far uneventful, but it would soon take a literal turn into the Twilight Zone. According to the observer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cRounding the bend, I saw, 80-meters [just over 260-feet] ahead, a group of figures clustered in the middle of the road. I slowed down to avoid the group, and at the same moment it split into two parts, suddenly and jerkily.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was then that Mr. S. noticed that there was something decidedly unnatural about the mob of jaywalkers blocking his passage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cMy window was down and I leaned my head out slightly to see what was the matter; it was then that I saw beasts, some kind of bizarre animals, with the heads of birds, and covered with some sort of plumage, which were hurling themselves from two sides towards my car.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This petrifying confrontation with unknown and decidedly violent creatures would be more than enough to disturb anyone, but just when things seemed to have reached maximum levels of high-strangeness, they took a turn for the downright bizarre:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cTerrified, I wound up my window, accelerated like a mad man, and the stopped 150-meters [approximately 500-feet] further on. I turned round and saw these things, these beasts, these nightmarish sort of beings, which were heading, with a sort of flapping of wings, towards a luminous dark-blue object, which hung in the air over a field on the other side of the road.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6756 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ufo.jpg?resize=300%2C234\" alt=\"ufo\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ufo.jpg?resize=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ufo.jpg?w=512&amp;ssl=1 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Mr. S. then described this ostensibly extraterrestrial vehicle in more detail: <em>\u201cIt resembled two plates, upside down, and placed on one another.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As if a flock of attacking bird-men and a hovering UFO would not strain the sanity of even the hardiest individual, Mr. S. put the proverbial cherry on the sundae with his final observations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cOn reaching it [the UFO], these \u2018birds\u2019 were literally sucked into the underpart of the machine as if by a whirlwind. Then I heard a dull sound (clac!) and the object flew off at a prodigious speed and finally disappeared.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems strange that these bipedal bird creatures were <em>&#8220;sucked&#8221;<\/em> into the flying saucer rather than climbing back inside; as happens in most occupant reports. As bizarre as this may sound, one almost can&#8217;t help but to wonder whether these <em>&#8220;beasts&#8221;<\/em> were actually piloting the\u00a0UFO seen by Mr. S., or if they represent some kind of alien pets &#8212; or even food a source &#8212; kind of the equivalent of intergalactic free range chickens. After all, extraterrestrials have got to eat too.<\/p>\n<p>According to Trigano, Mr. S. had no interest in the UFO phenomenon or in making his story public: <em>\u201csimply for fear of being thought mad.\u201d<\/em> Even if the witness had no interest in pursuing the origins of these creatures the rest of us are left with the conundrum of just what the heck did this middle-aged garage manager see on that rain drenched eve back in 1962?<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-10558 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mothman5.jpg?resize=247%2C300\" alt=\"mothman5\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" \/>The Editor who commented on the FSR story sagely (especially considering this was back in 1968, when it was a daunting task to correlate such disparate accounts) felt that this story was <em>\u201cimportant,\u201d<\/em> especially in light of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2012\/12\/mothman-west-virginia-usa\/\" target=\"_\">MOTHMAN<\/a> report filed by John Keel in the magazine\u2019s July\/August,\u00a01968, edition; and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2010\/03\/bat-beast-of-kent-england\/\" target=\"_\">BAT BEAST OF KENT<\/a> case, which FSR covered in its March\/April, 1964, issue.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever these <em>&#8220;nightmarish beings&#8221;<\/em> were, they &#8212; no doubt to the relief of Mr. S. &#8212; have never so much as shown a beak again&#8230; and as far as we\u2019re concerned these feathery fiends (and other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/avian-anomalies\/\" target=\"_\">AVIAN ANOMALIES<\/a>, such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2010\/10\/big-bird-texas-usa\/\" target=\"_\">BIG BIRD<\/a> of Texas) put a whole new twist on the phrase <em>\u201cangry birds.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/robmorphy.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11686\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/rob-morphy.jpg?resize=100%2C100\" alt=\"rob_morphy\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>\u00a9 Copyright Rob Morphy \u2014 2015<\/p>\n<p>Rob Morphy is an artist \/ journalist \/ filmmaker \/ designer \/ crypto chronicler \/ pod host \/ cult movie lover and co-founder of American Monsters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1962, on a desolate stretch of French road, a business man claimed to have encountered a gang of aggressive, bird-like beings, which not only blocked his car, but allegedly attacked him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":11950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[65,865,379,862,92,866,38,415,867,864,503,39,75,315,863,94,765,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-11332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-monsters","8":"category-out-of-this-world","9":"tag-alien","10":"tag-alien-bird","11":"tag-aliens-attack","12":"tag-angry-birds","13":"tag-bat-beast","14":"tag-bat-man","15":"tag-bat-monster","16":"tag-big-bird","17":"tag-bird-beasts","18":"tag-bird-man","19":"tag-bird-monster","20":"tag-flying-monster","21":"tag-flying-saucer","22":"tag-france","23":"tag-french-monster","24":"tag-mothman","25":"tag-mothman-prophecies","26":"tag-ufo"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/blood-feast-herschell1.png?fit=574%2C340&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11332"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13370,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332\/revisions\/13370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}