The Close encounter of Cussac is the name given to claims of a close encounter with supposed alien beings by a young brother and sister in Cussac, Cantal, France.
On 29 August 1967, a 13-year-old boy and his 9-year-old sister told local police they were watching cows in a field and saw "four small black beings about tall" who appeared to rise in the air and enter "a round spaceship, about in diameter" that was hovering over the field. The police noted a "sulfur odor" and "dried grass" at the place from which the sphere was alleged to have ascended. The children's story is one of the UFO sightings that was investigated by the French government, which was made public in a mass release of documents in March 2007. It notably received so many hits on its first day that the site crashed.
See also UFO sightings in France Eagle River encounter and Lonnie Zamora incident
References
Further reading Report on the Scientific Council - GEPAN, t. 4, National Centre for Space Studies, 140, June 1978 No. 68. Thierry Pinvidic, "Witnesses to a" legend ": a case of UFO sighting 'in' Communications', No. 52, October 1990, p. 311-335. Thierry Pinvidic, "A classic that has a hard time" in Pinvindic Thiery (ed). 'UFO: towards an anthropology of contemporary myth', Editions Heimdal, Paris, 1993, p. 199-209.