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September 16, 1954, Lyon, Rhône

Reference for this case: 16-Sep-54-Lyon.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Sumarry:

Aimé Michel reported in 1958 that on 16 September 1954, an observation was reported in Lyon, which turned out to be an airplane with an unusual contrail.

The case nevertheless appeared without any information other than Lyon - France, and the date, the mention "Day" and the category "Daytime Disk", in a German ufology database on the Web.

Reports:

[Ref. aml1:] AIME MICHEL:

Aimé Michel reports that on September 16, 1954, an observation was reported in Lyon, which proved to be that of an airplane with an unusual contrail.

[Ref. uda1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:

The website indicates that on 16 September 1954 at 18:00 in Lyon, France, "An unidentified object was sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. One green object was observed by two witnesses. Explanation: Aircraft."

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).

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

Case Nr.	New case Nr.	Investigator	Date of observation	Zip	Place of observation	Country of observation	Hour of observation	Classification	Comments	Identification
19540916			16.09.1954		Lyon	France	Daytime	DD

Explanations:

Airplane with unusual contrail.

Keywords:

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

Lyon, Rhône, airplane, contrail, trail

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.
[aml1] "A Propos des Soucoupes Volantes - Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, reprint of "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", Planète publishers, France, page 67, 1966.
[aml1] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Seghers publisher, France, page 71, 1977.
[aml1] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Robert Laffont publisher, France, page 71, 1978.
[uda1] "16 Sep 1954 - Lyon, France", web page by the UFOdna website, circa 2008, at www.ufodna.com/uf02/uf0/020883.htm
[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	December 3, 2005	First published.
1.0	Patrick Gross	June 11, 2009	Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Addition [uda1].
1.1	Patrick Gross	January 18, 2017	Addition [ubk1].
1.2	Patrick Gross	September 8, 2019	Addition of the Summary.

This page was last updated on September 8, 2019.