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September 21, 1954, Côte-d'Azur, unknown department:

Reference for this case: 21-Sep-54-Côte-d'Azur.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Reports:

[Ref. aml1:] AIME MICHEL:

Author and ufologist Aimé Michel illustrated that "false" flying saucers sightings were then easily identified as misinterpretations when serious investigation took place, from three example on September 21, 1954. For one of them, he wrotes:

"- In the Côte d'Azur, where the Flying Saucer is obviously only a fireball..."

[Ref. gqy1:] GUY QUINCY:

September 21 [1954]

?: Côte d'Azur (Var??): meteor

[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
19540921			21.09.1954		Cote de Azur	France

Explanations:

Meteor.

Keywords:

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

Côte d'Azur, flying saucer, fireball, meteor

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, version anglaise de "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", S.G. Phillips publisher, USA, 1958.
[gqy1] "Observations 1954", monograph by Guy Quincy, France - Algeria, private publication, the 1950's.
[aml1] "A Propos des Soucoupes Volantes", book by Aimé Michel, réimpression de "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", Planète publishers, France, 1969.
[aml1] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Seghers publisher, France, page 87, 1977.
[aml1] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Robert Laffont publisher, France, page 87, 1977.
[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	February 26, 2005	First published.
1.0	Patrick Gross	January 14, 2010	Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version.
1.1	Patrick Gross	January 31, 2017	Addition [ubk1].
1.2	Patrick Gross	March 12, 2021	Addition [gqy1].

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