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Reference for this case: 18-Oct-54-Nimes.
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The newspaper Le Provençal for October 20, 1954, reported that in Nimes, Monday - i.e. October 18, 1954 - around 6 p.m., Mrs. Bernard Panizzi, living on 3, rue de la Casernette, in Nimes, saw in the sky above les Halles - the Market - a "mysterious machine affecting the shape of a neon tube."
Some twenty people followed "the evolutions of the strange apparatus which disappeared suddenly."
[Ref. lpl1:] NEWSPAPER "LE PROVENCAL":
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Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer (C.P.).
Sunday morning around 4 hours, Mr. Casimir André going to hunting on motorbike, had his attention drawn by a powerful gleam coming from the boulevard de la Plage [boulevard of the Beach].
Having to go through this boulevard, he was suddenly stopped at a certain distance and his vehicle did not advance any more. When the gleam went out, he was able to resume his travel, particularly impressed.
One hour later, Mr. Leon Baudouvin, city council man, passing at this place with his car, saw a circular machine emitting a purple gleam, rise in the airs, leaving behind itself a trail of flames.
Nimes (C.P.).
Monday, around 6 p.m., Mrs. Bernard Panizzi, living on 3, rue de la Casernette, in Nimes, saw in the sky above les Halles [the Markets], a mysterious machine affecting the shape of a neon tube.
Some twenty people followed the evolutions of the strange apparatus which disappeared suddenly.
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This was possibly just a meteor.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Nimes, Gard, Bernard Panizzi, Casernette, Halles, neon, tube, multiple
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