◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
The Flavin Roadside Craft
At about eight on the evening of 12 September 1996 a mother and her daughter driving out of Flavin in the Aveyron saw a silent object the size of two cars hovering some four metres above the ground beside the road. Each drew it that night and gendarmes interviewed them the next day. France's state UAP unit files the case as unidentified after investigation. This is the record of what two witnesses reported, not a verdict on what hovered by the road.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- The Flavin Roadside Craft is a reported UAP case in Flavin, Aveyron, France, 12 September 1996.
- A mother and daughter driving out of Flavin reported a silent object the size of two cars hovering about four metres off the ground, some ten metres from the road.
- They described a dome with three bright red lights on a cylinder, and a fluorescent green light turning like an emergency-vehicle beacon.
- Each drew the object that night; the next day a gendarme made a computer-aided drawing from their statements.
- Radar, air traffic, a site search and days of patrols turned up nothing, and GEIPAN files the case as class D, unexplained.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 1 distinct source and 1 corroborating primary document.
- The archive grades it L0 · SINGLE ACCOUNT — the archive holds one account of it, from a single source.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-03; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
EVENT DATE
12 September 1996
LOCATION
Flavin, Aveyron · France
COORDS
44.29°N 2.60°E
INDEPENDENCE
L0 · SINGLE ACCOUNT
SOURCES
1 distinct
CLAIMANTS
0
STATUS
Known from released government records
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-03 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
