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November 11, 1954, Aizenay, Vendée:

Reference for this case: 11-Nov-54-Aizenay.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Summary:

The "skeptical" ufologists Gérard Barthel and Jacques Brucker indicated in their 1979 book on the "great Martian scare" of 1954 in France, that the newspaper La Vendée Libre for November 14, 1954, had reported that early in the morning in Aizenay, despite a thick fog, many inhabitants had been intrigued by "the moves of a mysterious machine which launched gleams sometimes yellow, sometimes of a bright red color."

In 2006, a local ufology website gave the likely date for this sighting as November 11, 1954.

Reports:

[Ref. bbr1:] GERARD BARTHEL AND JACQUES BRUCKER:

The two authors quote the newspaper "La Vendée Libre" for November 14, 1954:

"Early the morning in Aizenay, in spite of a thick fog, many residents were puzzled by the evolutions of a mysterious machine which sometimes launched yellow gleams, sometimes sharp red gleams."

[Ref. jcx1:] "LES MYSTERES DE VENDEE" WEBSITE:

The website's author found this observation in Barthel and Brucker's book and notes the following:

• The relevant issue of "La Vendée Libre" is unfortunately not available for reading in the Departmental Archives, either because it is missing or because it is in a too bad state, and all the observations which it contains thus remain unknown except three cases among them this one. The entirety of the September 1954 month is in the same case and some observations of this period will only be known when these documents are scanned, unless this month is quite simply lost.
• Barthel and Brucker are making some incredible interpretation by modifying the dates of the observations without explaining at all how this makes sense.
• Barthel and Brucker make a curious analysis which raises doubts, since they claim that the three events are at the same date while only one is dated exactly, then they claim that there are no ufological facts on November 11, 1954, then that ufologists give false dates by mistaking the dates of publications in newspapers and the dates of the sightings, which is sometimes true but is obviously not a question here.
• The author of the "Mysteries of Vendée" presents the three cases dated as of November 11 since one is dated at November 11, and that there are no precise details for the two others. He notes that it is not necessarily the same object which was observed.

[Ref. jcx2:] "LES MYSTERES DE VENDEE" WEBSITE:

In his case listing "UFOs in the Vendée", the author notes this case:

Aizenay, La Roche-sur-Yon, Les Sables, 11 November 1954

Explanations:

The "mysterious craft" could really have been anything; there is simply not enought information to decide.

Keywords:

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

Aizenay, Vendée, fog, craft, gleam, yellow, red, multiple

Sources:

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

• [----] Article in the regional newspaper La Vendée Libre, France, November 14, 1954.
• [bbr1] "La Grande Peur Martienne", book by Gérard Barthel and Jacques Brucker, Les nouvelles Editions Rationalistes publisher, pp 132-133, 1979.
• [jcx1] Les Mystères de Vendée, website by Jérôme Choloux, France, circa 2006, at journaldumerveilleux.perso.cegetel.net
• [jcx2] Les Mystères de Vendée, website by Jérôme Choloux, France, circa 2006, at www.mysteresdevendee.fr/ovnisbis.htm

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