THINK ABOUTIT ENTITY ENCOUNTER REPORT
1790: Matemblewo, Poland Entity Sighting
Date: July 17, 1790
Sighting Time: 5:00 in the morning
Day/Night: night
Location: Matemblewo, Poland
Urban or Rural: –
No. of Entity(‘s): 1
Entity Type: Humanoid
Entity Description: This person was dressed in a very strange fashion. He wore a suit which clung to his body
Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter III) Close observation with animate beings associated with the object.
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No. of Object(s): 1
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Shape of Object(s): sphere
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Summary/Description: At 5:00 in the morning, several farmers saw a huge globe in the sky, surrounded by flames. They first took it to be a balloon that had caught fire, but its speed and the strange whistling sound coming from it led them to think otherwise. The globe descended slowly, touching the top of a hill, where it tore up the plants along the slope. The flames from the object set fire to the small trees and the grass. Fortunately, the locals managed to stop the fire from spreading. In his report on the incident, police inspector Liabeuf wrote that the sphere was still hot in the evening. It showed no signs of damage despite the heat. “It stirred up so much curiosity that people came from all directions to see it.” After some time, a much unexpected thing happened. A door burst open in the sphere and a human came out! “This person was dressed in a very strange fashion. He wore a suit which clung to his body, and when he saw all this crowd he said a few words which could not be understood, and ran to take flight in the woods.” The peasants drew back from the sphere instinctively – which was fortunate for them because the object exploded, throwing pieces everywhere.
A search was undertaken to find the mysterious visitor but he was never discovered.
UPDATED
The Alengon incident has been included in many anthologies of UFO reports, dozens of books, and has become one of the best-known “folkloric” cases in the field. The reader may feel a little disappointed, therefore, though perhaps not very surprised, to discover that the event never really occurred.
The earliest reference to this case comes from an article published by Italian author Alberto Fenoglio, whom we’ve already met in connection with the supposed ufological deeds of Alexander the Great. A writer known to have invented some UFO reports in his time, Fenoglio seems to have created the story about Inspector Liabeuf for a purportedly serious article about sightings in ancient history, published in the Italian magazine Clypeus. This article was widely distributed and translated into several languages.
The truth of the matter finally came to light in 1975 when Italian researcher Edoardo Russo 30 conducted an investigation into Fenoglio’s claims. In spite of this, books and magazine articles presenting the story of the Alengon ‘crash’ as a genuine case continue to be published in good faith every year in many countries.
