Case file · Close encounter
Chabeuil 'diver' encounter
On 26 September 1954, a woman picking mushrooms near Chabeuil (Drôme) said a small figure in a 'diver's suit' approached her before a craft rose from a field.
1954 CE · 44.90, 5.02 · status: account
The account
Other villagers reported a machine taking off, and the gendarmerie found a circle of flattened vegetation. The press made it one of the emblematic 'little men' stories of the 1954 wave.
The sceptical view
Ground traces were vague and the story spread through a press already saturated with saucer reports.