Police Inspector Liabeuf

Police Inspector Liabeuf was a French police official in the 18th century whose precise birth and death years are unknown. As a law enforcement investigator, he was dispatched from Paris to probe a remarkable aerial phenomenon reported in 1763 near Vaucresson, France. Eyewitnesses, including two mayors and a physician, described a large, balloon-like craft carrying a sheep, duck, and rooster, which ascended to 1,500 feet, traveled two miles over eight minutes, and landed safely, with the rooster found dead with a broken neck. Liabeuf documented the event in an official police record, confirming the credible testimonies and details of the incident, often cited in UFO historical timelines as an early documented UFO encounter despite its conventional explanation as a Montgolfier hot-air balloon precursor experiment.