Traces in the Dirt: The UFO Encounter at Trans-en-Provence

In today's episode, we're traveling back to 1981, outside the French town of Trans-en-Provence, where an unidentified flying object reportedly left physical evidence in the form of burnt residue — along with other physical traces — in a farmer's field. The incredible UFO event was later described in a Popular Mechanics article as "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time."