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October 10, 1954, Vigneux-sur-Seine, Essonne:

Reference for this case: 10-Oct-54-Vigneux-sur-Seine.
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Summary:

The regional newspaper Le Lorrain for October 11, 1954, reported that a "flying saucer rising noiselessly vertically was seen at Vigneux (Seine-et-Oise) by Mr. Marais yesterday at 9 p.m. It was luminous and had portholes."

Reports:

[Ref. lln1:] NEWSPAPER "LE LORRAIN":

Scan.

THE "FLYING SAUCERS"

Pose many puzzles

NOW, CARS STOP

PARIS. - The "flying saucers" continue.

They are reported everywhere. And now, they are mingling to stop the engines.

In Le Mans a milk collector, Mr. Alexandre Tremblais, who was riding his truck on the small road near Saint-Jean-d'Assé (the Sarthe), suddenly noticed that the engine of his vehicle stopped and that the headlights extinguished.

M. Tremblais got out of his truck to see a red and blue luminous cigar, one meter long, disappearing on the horizon. A few minutes later, the engine started again and the headlights functioned again.

In Nancy, a true skeptic, Mr. Georges Bou, a 30-year-old driver at Sarrebruk [sic, Sarrebourg], was traveling on National Road 3 between Morsbach and Forbach when he saw a thick wide shadow blocking the road. He stopped, got out of his cabin, thinking of an accident. But he realized that he was stopped by a saucer. It was nine meters in diameter and about four meters high. It was illuminated by several light beams directed towards the ground.

The driver approached the strange device. Suddenly, the latter took off vertically, marked a pause at ten meters, then moved away very quickly.

The gendarmerie Captain Bohler went to the scene today with Mr. Bou. But he could not find any traces.

In the Island of Ré, Mr. Simonnetti said he saw a luminous sphere about 12 meters in diameter, which oscillated about fifty meters from the ground.

The sphere, he said, became red, turned blue and rose very quickly vertically.

Two other residents and two Parisians on vacation have confirmed.

At Duclair (Seine-Inf.), Mr. Landrin, a water attendant who was walking with his wife, was blinded by a light beam. When he opened his eyes, he said, he saw a ball disappear a few minutes later.

- Near Reims, a mechanic of the Panhard factories, Mr. Joseph Roy, 30, saw near the Isles-sur-Suippe a cigar posed on the ground, resembling according to his description to that of Marignane. Witnesses around have confirmed.

At la Montagne-de-Béruges (the Vienne), a farmer, Mr. Edouard Thébault, observed in his field an enormous luminous machine.

A few minutes later the craft was extinguished and a huge headlight swept the road, and when the witness returned with his father he had fetched, everything had disappeared.

- Several fishermen and the whole family of a fish dealer saw in the sky, in Plozevet (Finistère), a bright glow surrounded by dense smoke. This gleam, at first motionless, came towards them at an altitude of about ten meters. It had the appearance of an orange sphere.

- A whistling machine, gray in color, stood for a moment about 100 meters from Chassevreuil (Indre). The craft went off at a brisk pace, leaving behind it like a fog.

In the same commune, a young man saw a luminous red-orange machine that moved in a north-south direction.

- An aluminum half-spherical dome, illuminated inside, which was about three meters from the road and one meter from the ground, was seen in Jettingen (Haut-Rhin) by Mr. René Ott, an employee of the S.N.C.F. [national railyway company]. Frightened, Mr. Ott fled. He had, however, had the time to notice that a door was opening in the apparatus. The latter moved above him for a distance of 800 meters before disappearing. The gendarmes found no trace.

- A silent machine, moving like a spinning top, was seen in Calais, above the municipal theater, by a peacekeeper, a hairdresser, a taxi driver and a butcher. It moved away towards the sea.

- A flying saucer rising noiselessly vertically was seen at Vigneux (Seine-et-Oise) by Mr. Marais yesterday at 9 p.m.. It was luminous and had portholes.

THE EXPLODED SAUCER OF SAINT-VALERY-SUR-SOMME WAS ONLY A SOUNDING-BALLOON OF THE R.A.F.

ABBEVILLE. "Another false saucer!" The mysterious craft which broke out in the Picardy sky, and whose debris was scattered in a pasture at Boismont, near Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, was but a balloon.

The inhabitants of the region, fearing the famous "paralyzing" green ray, dared not approach the debris. Only Mr. Raymond Boucher, a sugar worker, had the courage to come and contemplate the saucer. It was more simply a balloon used by the meteorological services of the Royal Air Force which, by touching the ground, had burst noisily.

VIENNA. - Thousands of people saw yesterday a formation of flying saucers above Ried, flying from east to west.

THE OPINION OF A SCIENTIST

Asked about cars that stop, said:

- saucers or not saucers, it is necessary to consider as true the information that arrives at this moment. With regard to the sudden stop of engines at the passage of these craft, we must admit the presence and action of unknown rays. This does not mean that these rays have an extraterrestrial origin. Do you remember that famous Z ray, which was talked about so much before the last war? During the hostilities, the belligerents further perfected the process. I saw personally, some fifteen years ago, experiments in laboratories where electric rays ignited at distances of a few meters paper or other combustible materials.

[Ref. jsr1:] JEAN SIDER:

French ufologist and author Jean Sider learned in an article from the newspaper Le Courier de Saône-and-Loire, of Châlons-sur-Saône, for October 11, 1954, on page 5, that on October 10, 1954 at 09:00 p.m., from Vigneux-sur-Seine in the Essonne, a luminous flying saucer with port-holes was seen rising vertically without noise by Mr. Marais.

[Ref. lhh1:] LARRY HATCH - "*U* COMPUTER DATABASE":

4054: 1954/10/10 21:00 1 2:25:00 E 48:42:40 N 3333 WEU FRN ESN 7:6

VIGNEUX-sur-SEINE,FR:M.MARAIS:SLNT LUMn SCR W/PORTHOLES ^^ VERTICAL:/r217p102

Ref#194 LUMIERES dans la NUIT.(LDLN France) Issue No. 319 : RESIDENT'L

[Ref. edr1:] EMMANUEL DEHLINGER:

Place Approximate Coordinates Date 1954 Local Time Duration Sky Distance and move of the ufo Altitude of the ufo Angle B of the sun on the horizon Azimut of the sun Angle B of the moon on the horizon Azimut of the moon EL state of night Cas Commente Ref.
Vigneux-sur-Seine (Essonne) 2° 25 ' E
48° 42 ' N
Oct 10 ~09:00p.m.C Rising -28° 294° 35° 18 ' 136° 97%+ NTC NC6 Luminous saucer with portholes. #319 p. 16

[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:

Luc Chastan indicates that in the Essonne in Vigneux sur Seine on October 10, 1954 at 21:00 hours "A witness observes an object rising vertically without noise. It was luminous and comprised port-holes."

The source is indicated as "Lumières dans la Nuit".

[Ref. uda1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:

The website indicates that on 10 October 1954 at 21:00 there was a sighting in Vigneux-sur-Seine, France.

The source is indicated as "Hatch, Larry, *U* computer database, Author, Redwood City, 2002."

Explanations:

Map.

Possible planes, meteors, helicopter(s).

Vigneux is in the East of the Orly airport, on the other bank of the river Seine.

Keywords:

(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)

Vigneux-sur-Seine, Essonne, Marais, saucer, luminous, port-holes, ascencion, vertical, silent, night

Sources:

[----] indicates sources that are not yet available to me.

Document history:

Version: Created/Changed by: Date: Change Description:
0.1 Patrick Gross December 6, 2005 First published.
1.0 Patrick Gross April 18, 2009 Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Additions [lcn1], [uda1].
1.1 Patrick Gross October 29, 2011 Addition [edr1]. A search on the web and in my documentation did not reveal other sources.
1.2 Patrick Gross January 23, 2017 Addition [lln1].
1.3 Patrick Gross April 28, 2018 Addition [bs1].
1.4 Patrick Gross April 15, 2019 Additions [lhh1], Summary.

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