The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this website is here.
Reference for this case: 21-Oct-54-Girancourt.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. fru1:] MICHEL FIGUET AND JEAN-LOUIS RUCHON:
The two authors indicate that in Girancourt in the Vosges, on October 21, 1954 at 08:30 in the morning, many people located in various points of the locality observed a cylindrical object which hovered vertically in the sky and changed colors.
They indicate that the source is their own archive "FP 54".
[Ref. ldl1:] CNEGU - "LUMIERES DANS LA NUIT":
The magazine indicates that in Adoncourt/Girancourt on Thursday 21 October 1954 at 8:30 local time tens of people made an observation whose source is an article of La Liberté de l'Est for October 26, 1954, whose following extract said:
"The public rumor tells us that a flying cigar was observed at the station of GIRANCOURT, Thursday morning at 8:30. A tradesman of CHAUMOUSSEY made his round and leaving the station's coffee shop arrived at the first house of ADONCOURT when a female customer shouted to him: "Look over there!" He then noticed in the sky towards HENNECOURT and at a low altitude under the low ceiling of the clouds, an object appearing cylindrical in vertical position. The object was motionless or swiveling on itself. It appeared to have several colors, red, yellow, blue, orange like gleaming. Then suddenly it slipped by towards DOMPAIRE without any noise. At the station of GIRANCOURT tens of people saw it, the mailman and soldiers in parking".
[Ref. lhh1:] LARRY HATCH - "*U* COMPUTER DATABASE":
4230: 1954/10/21 08:30 5 6:19:00 E 48:09:00 N 3333 WEU FRN VSG 7:C
GIRANCOURT,VOSGES:MANY OBS/SEP.AREAS:VERTICAL CYL HANGS/SKY:CHANGES CLRS
Ref# 30 FIGEUT[sic]&RUCHON: OVNI: Le 1er Dossier Page No. 194 : TOWN &CITY
[Ref. djn1:] DONALD JOHNSON:
Encounters with Aliens on this Day
October 21
1954 - At 8:30 a.m. in Girancourt, Vosges, France a vertical cylinder-shaped object hung in the sky, and changed colors. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4026).
[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:
Luc Chastan indicates that in the Vosges at Girancourt on October 21, 1954, at 08:30 "Numerous people located in various points of the locality observe a cylindrical vertical object in the sky and changing color."
Luc Chastan indicates that the source is "Ovni, Premier dossier complet... by Figuet M./ Ruchon J.L. ** Alain Lefeuvre pub. 1979".
[Ref. uda1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:
The website indicates that on 21 October 1954 in at 08:30 in Girancourt, France, "Vertical cylinder hung in sky, changed colors." And: "A hovering cigar-shaped object was observed. Multiple independent witnesses. One changing color cylinder was observed by a male witness for five minutes."
The source is indicated as Hatch, Larry, *U* computer database, Author, Redwood City, 2002.
[Ref. nip1:] "THE NICAP WEBSITE":
*Oct. 21, 1954 - At 8:30 a.m. in Girancourt, Vosges, France a vertical cylinder-shaped object hung in the sky, and changed colors. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4026).
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