The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this website is here.
Reference for this case: 22-Oct-54-Toulouse.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
An article in Radar magazine for November 7, 1954 reported "an appearance of 6 seconds" whose witness was Mr. Jean-Pierre Pacouil, 22, rue du Capitaine-Escudié, Toulouse:
"I think I am doing the right thing by telling you about the phenomenon which I witnessed yesterday, Friday, October 22, while I was chatting with two of my colleagues on the bridge of the Ecole-Vétérinaire around 6:55 p.m. before taking my postal service in the sorting center. I do say a luminous phenomenon; that is what I will support against all odds, on my very honor. I cannot specify the nature of it, except that it could not to be a plane...
"I was joking with my two companions about a transformer, placed near the postal sorting centre, which gratifies you with a good electric jolt when, inadvertently, you put a hand on its carcass and the other on the railing of the bridge. Suddenly, I saw a light - I say a light, not a craft - at a very high altitude above the Sirvin factories. The apparition lasted about 5 seconds. The light that came out of the night in a round shape, stretched out leaping above the railway tracks, swelled again towards the Côte-Pavée district, leaving behind something like sparks before fainting. For a moment, I thought it was a very fast airplane signaler, but the sparks that occurred dissuaded me...
"I will be the happiest of men, I confess, to learn that it was a meteor, because the saucer business has lasted too long in my opinion, and I do not trust to excited minds".
In the 2000s, a database of German UFO observations on the web noted that there had been a sighting of the "nocturnal lights" kind in Toulouse at night on October 22, 1954.
An American website noted the same thing, telling that it was at 8 p.m. and giving as source a computer catalog.
[Ref. rdr1:] "RADAR" MAGAZINE:
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Mr. Jean-Pierre PACOUIL, 22, rue du Capitaine-Escudié, Toulouse:
"I think I am doing the right thing by telling you about the phenomenon which I witnessed yesterday, Friday, October 22, while I was chatting with two of my colleagues on the bridge of the Ecole-Vétérinaire around 6:55 p.m. before taking my postal service in the sorting center. I do say a luminous phenomenon; that is what I will support against all odds, on my very honor. I cannot specify the nature of it, except that it could not to be a plane...
"I was joking with my two companions about a transformer, placed near the postal sorting centre, which gratifies you with a good electric jolt when, inadvertently, you put a hand on its carcass and the other on the railing of the bridge. Suddenly, I saw a light - I say a light, not a craft - at a very high altitude above the Sirvin factories. The apparition lasted about 5 seconds. The light that came out of the night in a round shape, stretched out leaping above the railway tracks, swelled again towards the Côte-Pavée district, leaving behind something like sparks before fainting. For a moment, I thought it was a very fast airplane signaler, but the sparks that occurred dissuaded me...
"I will be the happiest of men, I confess, to learn that it was a meteor, because the saucer business has lasted too long in my opinion, and I do not trust to excited minds".
[Ref. uda1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:
The website indicates that on 22 October 1954 at night in Toulouse, France, "Nocturnal lights were reported."
The source is indicated as Schoenherr, Luis, Computerized Catalog (N = 3173).
[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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19541022 | 22.10.1954 | Toulouse | France | Night | NL |
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Obvious description of a meteor.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, night
[----] indicates sources that are not yet available to me.
| Version: | Created/Changed by: | Date: | Change Description: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | March 17, 2010 | First published. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | March 6, 2017 | Addition [ubk1]. |
| 1.2 | Patrick Gross | January 4, 2019 | Addition of the Summary. Explanations changed, were "Not looked for yet". |
| 1.3 | Patrick Gross | June 9, 2022 | Addition [rdr1]. In the Summary, addition of the information from [rdr1]. Explanations changed, were "Totally insufficient information." |
