Originally Posted by
TallInTheSaddle
No smoke, no real residue, no other people on scene?
A Super Mystere flew in to the ground 75 metres from me in Normandy in 1960. I thought it was a gas bottle explosion and walked over to check .The crater looked exactly like this; no visible debris save a half a dozen hand size fragments of alloy, there was no fire, almost no smoke apart from a few gently smouldering clods of earth which soon went out. The crater to me, an old country boy, most strongly resembled a recently ploughed and harrowed paddock. The was absolutely no sign of an aircraft