“Valensole 1965”, a UFO in the lavender fields

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Sixty years after the events, this film revisits the story of a spacecraft landing of unknown origin in Provence, which made headlines. Its director, Dominique Filhol, thus shifts to fiction, but remains focused on his favorite subject: UFOs.
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I subscribeOn July 1 , 1965, at dawn, Maurice Masse, a farmer specializing in lavender, had a strange encounter in his field: an ovoid craft took off with a shrill whistle and a blinding light. Only traces remained on the ground: around the perimeter where this strange vehicle had landed, the lavender had disappeared, leaving only bare earth, a hole about thirty centimeters deep, and cross-shaped traces.
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