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October 14, 1954, Montrevel-en-Bresse, Ain:

Reference for this case: 14-Oct-54-Montrevel-en-Bresse.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Reports:

[Ref. aml1:] AIME MICHEL:

Aimé Michel reports that on October 14, 1954 in Montrevel at 16 kilometers of Bourg-en-Bresse, many witnesses saw at 06:13 P.M. a very shiny machine flying horizontally in an absolutely rectilinear way from the west to the east.

[Ref. jve5:] JACQUES VALLEE:

333

-005.13036

46.33200

1954

101

*MONTREVEL

1517

C**

299

[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:

Luc Chastan indicates in his database that in the Ain in Montrevel en Bresse on October 14, 1954, at 18:13 hours, there was an "Observation of a very shining disc flying horizontally in an absolutely rectilinear way from West to East."

The source is noted: "M.O.C. by Michel Aimé ** Arthaud 1958".

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

This database recorded this case 4 times:

Case Nr.	Date of observation	Place of observation	Country of observation	Hour of observation	Classification
19541014	14.10.1954	Montrevel.bresse	France		NL
19541014	14.10.1954	Montrevel	France	18.00	NL
19541014	14.10.1954	Montrevel	France	18.00	NL
19541014	14.10.1954	Montrevel	France	18.13

Explanations:

The 06:15 p.m. meteor that day.

Keywords:

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

Montrevel-en-Bresse, Ain, multiple, shiny, level

Sources:

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

[aml1] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Arthaud publisher, France, 1958.
[aml1] "Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery", book by Aimé Michel, English version of "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", S.G. Phillips publisher, USA, 1958.
[jve5] "Catalogue préliminaire de 500 observations", listing in "Les Phénomènes Insolites de l'Espace", book by Jacques and Janine Vallée, Table Ronde publishers, France, 1966.
[aml1] "A Propos des Soucoupes Volantes", book by Aimé Michel, reprint of "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", Planète publishers, France, 1966.
[aml1] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Seghers publisher, France, pp 237-238, 1977.
[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.
[aml1] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Robert Laffont publisher, France, pp 237-238, 1978.
[lcn1] Base OVNI France, website by Luc Chastan, France, circa 2006, at baseovnifrance.free.fr/detobs.php?numobs=2488
[ubk1] Online database UFO-Datenbank, Germany, found in 2016, at ufodatenbank.de

Document history:

Version:	Created/Changed by:	Date:	Change Description:
0.1	Patrick Gross	September 25, 2005	First published.
1.0	Patrick Gross	April 8, 2009	Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Addition [lcn1].
1.1	Patrick Gross	June 29, 2010	Addition [jve5].
1.2	Patrick Gross	February 23, 2017	Addition [ubk1].

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