Sighting record / 1966

The Bolazec Low-Flying Craft (Eugène Coquil)

January 16, 1966 · Ty Guen, near the Bolazec and Plougras crossroads, Bolazec, Finistère, Brittany, France

10Thinly documented UAP Other 12 sources

January 16, 1966. About four in the morning. Eugène Coquil, a 23-year-old carpenter, was driving his Renault Dauphine on the road from Morlaix to Callac in rural Brittany. Beams of light moved in a field. A tractor, he thought. He stopped and walked toward them. Then the lights came toward him. They rose over an embankment four or five metres up. No engine. No sound at all. He ran. The thing followed, hovered perfectly still over his car, then settled gently on a patch of ground a few metres away. Coquil fled, stalling his engine in his hurry. When he finally drove off, it was still sitting there.

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Key facts

When	January 16, 1966
Time of day	about 4 am
Where	Ty Guen, near the Bolazec and Plougras crossroads, Bolazec, Finistère, Brittany,France
Duration	not recorded
Witnesses	1
Witness roles	civilians
Found	testimony only
Evidence	none confirmed
Investigations	none recorded
Status	undisputed

The object

As long as a car but much wider, and in his drawing a cube at least the size of two cars. Four luminous columns like the rear lights of a Peugeot 404 lit it from outside with a neon-like glow, and he thought it had portholes on the side. It flew silently, hovered over his car and landed.

Size	about 4 m (as long as a car but much wider)
Altitude	about 4.5 m
Distance	about 5 m from the witnesses
Surface	glowing
Lights	4 lights
Sound	no sound
Motion	hovered, pursued or followed, landed or touched down

Context

Bolazec is a small commune in Finistère, south-east of Morlaix, on the border with what was then Côtes-du-Nord. Near the crossroads with Plougras, on the road from Morlaix to Callac, lies a place called Ty Guen.

Sources (12, most influential first)

Le Télégramme de Brest, 18 January 1966 (English translation) · Patrick Gross, UFOs at close sight· 1966-01-18 · Wiki, blog, podcast · news
Le Télégramme de Brest, 18 janvier 1966 (French original) · Patrick Gross, UFOs at close sight· 1966-01-18 · Wiki, blog, podcast · news
La Montagne, 19 January 1966 (English translation) · Patrick Gross, UFOs at close sight· 1966-01-19 · Wiki, blog, podcast · news
La Montagne, 19 janvier 1966 (French original) · Patrick Gross, UFOs at close sight· 1966-01-19 · Wiki, blog, podcast · news
A Century of UFO Landings · declassified.ca · Wiki, blog, podcast · blog

Reputability

10/100Thinly documented

Editorial note: the sources for this case are later retellings (wikis, blogs, podcasts); no press, book or official record is cited.

Keywords

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People

Eugène CoquilWitness, 23-year-old carpenter from Kermadien, Bolazec
Lucien JegourdeLe Télégramme de Brest journalist who reconstructed the scene with the witness
Jacques ValléeIncluded the case in the Passport to Magonia landing catalogue
Jean-François BoëdecAuthor who reprinted the Télégramme article in his book on Brittany UFOs
Godelieve Van OvermeireChronologist who recorded the witness's drawing
Patrick GrossArchivist whose site preserves the 1966 press articles

Names

Patrick Gross Jacques Vallée GEIPAN Passport to Magonia