Case file · High strangeness
Saint-Exupéry's last flight
On 31 July 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry left Corsica on a reconnaissance flight in a P-38 and disappeared off Provence.
1944 CE · 43.18, 5.38 · status: explained
The account
A fisherman found his bracelet near Riou island in 1998, and wreckage of his aircraft was identified in 2004. A former Luftwaffe pilot later claimed to have shot him down.