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July 20 or 21, 1954, Troyes, Aube:

Reference for this case: 21-Jul-54-Troyes.
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Summary:

The local newspaper L'Echo Nogentais for July 24, 1954, noted:

"Is it a mirage? Tuesday [thus July 21, 2954], at about 4 p.m., flying saucers were seen in the sky of Troyes."

Jacques Vallée noted in a computer catalog a case of UFO of July 21, 1954, at 4 p.m., in Troyes. There was no other information and no source reference.

In 2019, on the Web, a Web page on observations in the Aube department was published by one Jacques Schwitzer. It aid that on July 20, 1954, at 4 p.m., in Troyes, nine people had observed an extremely brilliant ball that turned on itself, and that this observation was confirmed by the director of the Juvénal-des-Ursins clinic who had installed an observatory on the roof of his establishment.

Reports:

[Ref. ens1:] "L'ECHO NOGENTAIS" NEWSPAPER:

Is it a mirage? Tuesday, at about 4 p.m., flying saucers were seen in the sky of Troyes.

[Ref. jve5:] JACQUES VALLEE:

107

-004.07790

48.29940

1954

TROYES

1516

[Ref. uda1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:

The website indicates that on July 21, 1954, in Troyes, France, "An unidentified object was sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. One object was observed by six witnesses."

The sources are indicated as Vallee, Jacques, Computerized Catalog (N = 3073); Vallee, Jacques, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, Henry Regnery, Chicago, 1966; Vallee, Jacques, Preliminary Catalog (N = 500), (in JVallee01).

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

The sighting was recorded twice in this database:

Case Nr.	New case Nr.	Investigator	Date of observation	Zip	Place of observation	Country of observation	Hour of observation	Classification	Comments	Identification
19540721			21.07.1954		Troyes	France	16.00
19540721			21.07.1954		Troyes	France	16.00

[Ref. jcr1:] JACQUES SCHEITZER:

On July 20, 1954 at 4 p.m., in Troyes, 9 people observe an extremely brilliant ball turning on itself. The observation is confirmed by the director of the Juvénal-des-Ursins clinic who installed, on the roof of his establishment, an observatory.

Explanations:

Totally insufficient information.

Keywords:

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

Troyes, Aube, multiple

Sources:

[----] indicates sources that are not yet available to me.

[ens1] Article in the local newspaper L'Echo Nogentais, Nogent, France, page 1, July 24, 1954.
[jve5] "Catalogue préliminaire de 500 observations", listing in "Les Phénomènes Insolites de l'Espace", book by Jacques and Jannine Vallée, Table Ronde publisher, France, 1966.
[jve5] "Catalogue préliminaire de 500 observations", listing in "Les Phénomènes Insolites de l'Espace", book by Jacques and Jannine Vallée, Robert Laffont publisher, France, page 248, 1978.
[uda1] "21 Jul 1954 - Troyes, France", web page by the UFOdna website, circa 2008, at ufodna.com/uf02/uf0/020341.htm
[ubk1] Online database UFO-Datenbank, Germany, found in 2016, at ufodatenbank.de
[jcr1] "O.V.N.I. dans l'Aube", Web page by Jacques Schweitzer, France, not dated, found in 2019, at https://www.jschweitzer.fr/c-est-notre-histoire/o-v-n-i-dans-l-aube

Document history:

Version:	Created/Changed by:	Date:	Change Description:
1.0	Patrick Gross	April 5, 2010	First published.
1.1	Patrick Gross	June 17, 2010	Addition [jve5].
1.2	Patrick Gross	December 3, 2016	Addition [ubk1].
1.3	Patrick Gross	July 2, 2019	Addition of the Summary. Explanations changed, were "Not looked for yet."
1.4	Patrick Gross	December 12, 2019	Addition [jcr1]. in the Summary, addition of the paragraphe "In 2019, on the Web..."

This page was last updated on December 12, 2019.