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Reference for this case: 16-Oct-54-Bellenaves.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
In their book - catalog of 1979, the authors and ufologists Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon indicated that in Bellenaves, in the Allier department, on October 16, 1954, at 09:30 p.m., at a place called Saint-Bonnet-de-Tisson, there was an observation of a brilliant object of round shape leaving a luminous trail.
They indicated as a source an article in the regional newspaper La Montagne for October 21, 1954, and were apparently not aware that this matched the big meteor that had crossed the sky of France at this time.
[Ref. aml1:] AIME MICHEL:
Aimé Michel wrote about the October 16, 1954, 09:30 p.m. meteor:
THE TEST OF THE METEOR. October 16, as if it was purposely, a splendid meteor crossed the north of France towards 09:30 p.m. It was observed on a score of departments by thousands of people, from the Allier to Lorraine and from the Swiss border to Paris. Naturally many witnesses believed to have seen a Flying Saucer and said so. The newspapers printed "Flying Saucer in Orly", or "in Montididier", or "in Metz." But once again the description made by all these weak brains appeared of a remarkable honesty.
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The innumerable gathered testimonies show indeed that even when the witnesses called "Flying saucer" the observed object, their description is identical on 200.000 square kilometers where the visible phenomenon was visible: an "orange ball followed by a trail", a "large luminous ball with a tail", a "flying egg followed by a trail", a "bottle's bottom with a trail of thirty times its diameter", etc. The same phenomenon is uniformly described.
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[Ref. fru1:] MICHEL FIGUET AND JEAN-LOUIS RUCHON:
The two authors indicate that in Bellenaves, Allier, October 16, 1954 at 09:30 p.m., at a location known as Saint-Bonnet-of-Tisson, there was an observation of a shining object of round shape leaving a luminous trail.
They indicate as source an article in the regional newspaper La Montagne for October 21, 1954.
[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:
Luc Chastan indicates that in the Allier in Bellenaves on October 16, 1954 at 21:30 hours, "At the location St Bonnet de Tisson, observation of a shining object of round form leaving a luminous trail."
The source is indicated as "Ovni, Premier dossier complet... by Figuet M./ Ruchon J.L. ** Alain Lefeuvre pub. 1979".
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The meteor of October 16, 1954, at 09:30 p.m.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Bellenaves, Allier, shining, objet, trail, luminous, round
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