The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this website is here.
Reference for this case: 16-oct-54-LaMoutade.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
In a catalog of 1954 obseravtion reports in the Puy-de-Dôme, the ufology magazine Lumières Dans La Nuit #125 of May 1973 indicated that in La Moutade, at 09:30 p.m. on October 16, 1954, Mrs. Védel and her son saw a luminous ball leaving two parrallel trails move from East to West.
[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 testimonys show indeed that even when the witnesses called "Flying saucer" the observed object, their description is identical on 200.000 square kilometres 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. ldl1:] UFOLOGY MAGAZINE "LUMIERES DANS LA NUIT":
This magazine indicates that in La Moutade in the Puy-de-Dôme, at 09:30 P.M., on October 16, 1954, Mrs Vedel and her son saw a luminous ball leaving two parallel trails going from East to West.
[Ref. fru1:] MICHEL FIGUET AND JEAN-LOUIS RUCHON:
The two authors indicated that on October 16, 1954, at 09:30 P.M. in La Moutade in the Puy-de-Dôme, there was an observation of a luminus ball leaving a trail.
They say the source is their archive.
[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:
The author of the database indicates that in the "Puy de Dômes" in La Moutade, on October 16, 1954 at 21:30 hours there was an "Observation of a luminous ball leaving a trail behind it."
The source is indicated as "Ovni, Premier dossier complet... par Figuet M./ Ruchon J.L. ** éd. Alain Lefeuvre 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.)
La Moutade, Védel, Puy-de-Dôme, luminous, ball, trail, trails, two, night
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