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October 12, 1954, Jambles, Saône-et-Loire:

Reference for this case: 12-Oct-54-Jambles.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Summary:

In his 1958 book on the French wave of 1954, ufologist Aimé Michel reported that on October 12, 1954, at 9:30 p.m., in the village of Jambles, witnesses saw an object arriving from the East and go west.

He gave no other details and said that the source is La Bourgogne Républicaine and the file of ufologist Charles Garreau.

Reports:

[Ref. aml1:] AIME MICHEL:

Aimé Michel reports that on October 12, 1954, at 09:30 p.m., in the village of Jambles, witnesses saw an object arriving of the East and leaving towards the West.

He indicates that the case comes from La Bourgogne Républicaine and the Charles Garreau file.

[Ref. gqy1:] GUY QUINCY:

[Ref. jve5:] JACQUES VALLEE:

[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:

Luc Chastan indicates that in the Saone et Loire in Jambles on October 12, 1954 at 21:30 hours, "witnesses saw an object arriving from the East and leaving towards the West."

The source is indicated as my website at "http://ufologie.net" (This was then the URL of my home page.).

[Ref. uda1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:

The website indicates that on 12 October 1954 at 21:30 in Jambles, France, "An unidentified object was sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. One object was observed by three witnesses on a road."

The sources are indicated as "Michel, Aime, Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, S. G. Phillips, New York, 1958; Vallee, Jacques, Computerized Catalog (N = 3073); Vallee, Jacques, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, Henry Regnery, Chicago, 1966; Vallee, Jacques, Preliminary Catalog (N = 500), (in JVallee01); Hatch, Larry, *U* computer database, Author, Redwood City, 2002".

[Ref. ubk1:] "UFO-DATENBANK":

This database recorded this case 4 times:

Explanations:

Totally insufficient information.

Keywords:

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

Jambles, Saône-et-Loire, object, flying, multiple

Sources:

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

• [----] Article in the newspaper La Bourgogne Républicaine, France, October 1954.
• [aml1] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Arthaud publisher, 1958.
• [aml1] "Flying Saucers and the Straight Lines Mystery", book by Aimé Michel, English version of "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", S.G. Phillips publisher, USA, 1958.
• [gqy1] "Observations 1954", monograph by Guy Quincy, France - Algeria, private publication, page 16, the 1950's.
• [jve5] "Catalogue préliminaire de 500 observations", listing in "Les Phénomènes Insolites de l'Espace", book by Jacques and Janine Vallée, Table Ronde publisher, France, 1966.
• [aml1] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Seghers publisher, page 227, 1976.
• [aml1] "A Propos des Soucoupes Volantes", book by Aimé Michel, reprint of "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", Planète publishers, 1972.
• [jve5] "Catalogue préliminaire de 500 observations", listing in "Les Phénomènes Insolites de l'Espace", book by Jacques and Janine Vallée, Robert Laffont publisher, France, page 250, 1978.
• [lcn1] Base OVNI France, website by Luc Chastan, France, circa 2005, at baseovnifrance.free.fr/detobs.php?numobs=921
• [uda1] "12 Oct 1954 - Jambles, France", web page at the UFOdna website, circa 2007, at www.ufodna.com/uf02/uf2/022648.htm
• [ubk1] Online database UFO-Datenbank, Germany, found in 2016, at ufodatenbank.de

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