A sceptic of the Cercle Zététique, Éric Maillot spent decades looking for ordinary answers to France's strangest cases. From 1996 he argued that the Cussac children saw a military Alouette II helicopter. In 1998 he flagged a mismatch in the Air France Flight AF3532 radar evidence. The radar track came from the right, while the crew saw the object on the left, so he proposed a Guppy cargo aircraft. For Laxou in 1982 he suggested a partly deflated mylar balloon. In 2023 he and Jean-Michel Abrassart reported new evidence for it.
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Skeptic, Cercle Zététique, meteor explanation
Pro earlyResearcher who catalogued the case
Cercle Zététique sceptic, proposed the helicopter hypothesis
Author of a 1993 Cercle Zététique critique
Observatoire Zététique sceptic and co-author of the hoax critique
Pro earlySceptical investigator, co-author of Les OVNI du CNES, proposed the Mylar balloon hypothesis
Sceptical researcher who argued for a mylar balloon
Cercle Zététique sceptic who challenged the radar match