Paris Match 1954

Boy lifted by two tall metallic-suited beings toward tank-like craft near Canal du Nord, Marseilles, 1921

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France Sightings

1921: Canal du Nord Child Abduction, CE-IV, Marseilles France

Published: August 17, 2026 | Updated: August 17, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP | ENTITY ENCOUNTER REPORT Marseilles France 1921: Canal du Nord Child Abduction, CE-IV Sometime in the summer of 1921, an eight-year-old...

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Three panel 1920s silver gelatin halftone intelligence dossier collage for the 1921 UFO UAP sightings archive showing left an eight-year-old boy crying and suspended between two very tall slim metallic-suited beings lifting him toward a dark rectangular-ported craft in the post-WWI industrial wasteland near the Canal du Nord outside Marseilles France in the summer of 1921 sourced to a 1954 Paris Match reader's letter, center multiple Parisian pedestrians including a gendarme stopped on a Haussmann boulevard looking up at a dark stationary unidentified object above the roofline in the pale morning sky for over fifteen minutes on March 5 1921, and right a Connecticut man at a split-rail fence at night watching diffuse circular glows press down through heavy overcast from bright circular objects above the cloud deck near Killingly

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1920 - 1929 Sightings

1921: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings

Published: June 22, 2016 | Updated: August 17, 2026

1921: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive The year 1921 is the leanest in the 1920–1929 series — six entries total, three of them currently undocumented placeholders,...

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1921: Canal du Nord Child Abduction, CE-IV, Marseilles France

1921: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings

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