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Reference for this case: 18-Oct-54-Brain.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
The national newspaper Paris-Presse for October 20, 1954, listed on page 5 some recent observations, indicating that there had been one in Brain, near Décize, by witnesses named Perrault and Villerot.
In his 1958 book, ufologist and author Aimé Michel indicates that on October 18, 1954, in Brain près Decize in the Nièvre, "one does not know what they saw." He indicates that only Paris-Presse for October 20 mentions this case without giving even one detail, that it is impossible to go up to the source and not even possible to check the date.
In 2021, I found a contemporary source making the case much more interesting, the regional newspaper La Bourgogne Républicaine of Dijon for October 19, 1954, reporting this on page 4:
Nevers (from our P.C.). -- Mr. Marc Perrault and Mr. Veillerot, employees at the Brain control room, near Decize (Nièvre) were working in the fields when they heard the characteristic noise of jet engines.
They looked up and indeed saw two planes in the sky leaving behind them the trail of white condensation as we know.
But to their surprise, they saw under the double wake, a luminous ball similar to a very large star which began to descend slowly and which they were to observe at their ease.
Finally the ball took height, and disappeared in the clouds. Both are convinced that it was a flying saucer...
[Ref. lbr1:] NEWSPAPER "LA BOURGOGNE REPUBLICAINE":
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Nevers (from our P.C.). -- Mr. Marc Perrault and Mr. Veillerot, employees at the Brain control room, near Decize (Nièvre) were working in the fields when they heard the characteristic noise of jet engines.
They looked up and indeed saw two planes in the sky leaving behind them the trail of white condensation as we know.
But to their surprise, they saw under the double wake, a luminous ball similar to a very large star which began to descend slowly and which they were to observe at their ease.
Finally the ball took height, and disappeared in the clouds. Both are convinced that it was a flying saucer...
[Ref. ppe1:] NEWSPAPER "PARIS-PRESSE":
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CURZIO MALAPARTE missed the book of his life.
A flying saucer stuffed with "Martians" like a subway train at six in the evening landed on the terrace of his summer villa in Capri. And Malaparte was not there! Disappointed, the Martians who probably wanted to have "The Skin" signed off, left.
It was a painter, Raffaele Castello, who saw them. He was walking at night at Cape Maroulo when he saw a huge disc five meters in diameter delicately landing on the Malapartean villa. Four of the Martians - they were short, dressed in overalls and speaking in low voices - entered the writer's house. Half an hour later, they left without having even taken a book. They climbed back into the craft which, casting classic bluish gleams, rose as perpendicular as it was silent and disappeared towards Sicily. Farewell Martians!
Various saucers and cigars have flown all over Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Spain (these are the first, the Franco regime seemed to intimidate the Martians so far) and naturally in France. Our happy compatriots who were favored with their vision are Pierre Pouquet in Saint-Germain-les-Belles (Haute-Vienne), Perrichou and Mrs., in Uzel (Côtes-du-Nord), Meunier in Pont-l'Abbé-d'Arnoult (Vendée) [Charente-Maritime], Boulineau in Luçon, Jean Aufard in Sisternes-la-Forêt (Pas-de-Calais), Perrault and Villerot in Brain, near Decize, Decréquy, marshall of the gendarmerie in Pommier (Pas-de-Calais), Filatte, farmer in Noyeux (Eure).
This Mr. Filatte, running across the fields to observe the saucer, fell into a pond and almost drowned.
LIVORNO. October 19. (AFP.) - "They are persecuting me... They are coming to get me... I saw them land in a field... Saucers, large and small... Lights and smoke... The Martians... The Martians...", it is by shouting these pieces of sentences expressing his deep agitation that Mr. Bruno Senesi, 34, came to the hospital in Livorno, asking to be helped. But when the nurse returned with the doctor on duty, Senesi was gone. He was found hidden under a bed, shaken by violent shivers.
At the asylum, his condition causes concern.
[Ref. aml1:] AIME MICHEL:
The author indicates that on October 18, 1954, in Brain près Decize in the Nièvre, "one does not know what they saw." He indicates that only Paris-Presse for October 20 mentions this case without giving even one detail, that it is impossible to go up to the source and not even possible to check the date.
[Ref. gqy1:] GUY QUINCY:
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October 18, [1954]
? [= unknown hour]: Brain near Décize (Nièvre): lumin.obj.
[Ref. ubk1:] "UFO-DATENBANK":
This database recorded this case twice:
| Case Nr. | New case Nr. | Investigator | Date of observation | Zip | Place of observation | Country of observation | Hour of observation | Classification | Comments | Identification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19541018 | 18.10.1954 | Brain | France | |||||||
| 19541018 | 18.10.1954 | Brain Decize | France |
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Possible extraterrestrial visitors.
Of course it might have been the 08:45 p.m. meteor of October 18, 1954, admitted a very wrog descirotion of the move.
The date of October 18, 1954, does not appear in the contemprary source I have so far, it is indicated in [ubk1] and may be just a guess based on Press sources supposedly of the next day.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Brain près Decize, Brain, Nièvre, Marc Perrault, Veillerot, Villerot, noise, jet planes, ball, luminous, descent, slow, rise
[----] indicates sources that are not yet available to me.
| Version: | Created/Changed by: | Date: | Change Description: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | June 12, 2009 | First published. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | March 3, 2017 | Addition [ubk1]. |
| 1.2 | Patrick Gross | January 19, 2019 | Addition of the Summary. Explanations changed, were "Not looked for yet." |
| 1.3 | Patrick Gross | January 15, 2020 | Addition [ppe1]. In the Summary, addition of the paragraph "The national newspaper Paris-Presse..." |
| 1.4 | Patrick Gross | February 27, 2021 | Addition [lbr1]. In the Summary, addition of the information from [lbr1]. Explanations changed, were "Totally insufficient information." |
| 1.5 | Patrick Gross | October 3, 2021 | Addition [gqy1]. |
