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A metallic ‘tube’ from Saint-Jean de Livet (France)

Drawing of one of the ‘tubes’
discovered by Druet and Salfati

In 1968, Y Druet and H Salfati claimed to have discovered a number of semi-ovoid metallic tubes they believed to be artificial in Cretaceous (Aptian) chalk at a quarry in St-Jean de Livet (France), which they announced in a letter to the editors of Planète, a French magazine devoted to unsolved mysteries. The tubes were shaped identically, but their sizes varied between 30 and 90 mm in length, and 10 and 40 mm in width. According to the authors of the letter (dated 30 September 1968), the objects were currently being studied by the Geomorphology Laboratory of the Université de Caen, but nothing further seems to be known about them. Several requests by the writer for further information from the Department have failed to produce a response.

This page was last updated on 27 July 2007
Written by Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews