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Reference for this case: 11-Oct-54-Ajaccio.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
The regional newspaper Var-Matin République for October 12, 1954, reported that one of their fellows Press people from Bastia is said to have seen in the sky of Ajaccio, a flying cigar, but that actually, "it was quite simply a jet plane which left, Monday evening, a long white trail, which intrigued many people."
The newspaper specified that the craft had the shape of a jet plane.
[Ref. vmr1:] NEWSPAPER "VAR-MATIN REPUBLIQUE":
One of our fellows from Bastia is said to have seen in the sky of Ajaccio, a flying cigar. Actually, it was quite simply a jet plane which left, Monday evening, a long white trail, which intrigued many people. The city discusses the flying saucers since an unknown apparatus was seen motionless above the Sanguinaire Islands. But the city is less surprised by the visit of this cigar which had the shape of a jet.
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Jet airplane.
This is a "quasi negative case", identified without intervention of any ufologist, but unidentified by some of the witnesses apparently.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Ajaccio, Corse-du-Sud, Corsica, Corse, craft, plane, jet plane, trail, white, negative case, multiple
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