The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this website is here.
Reference for this case: 25-Sep-54-Mansle.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
In the national newspaper Paris-Presse for September 28, 1954, it was told on page 1, among other observations, that in Mansles in the Charente department, "Mr. Martin saw the other night about 2 o'clock in the morning a luminous disk moving from south to north."
In his 1958 book on the "Mysterious Celestial Objects", Aimé Michel noted, without giving a source, that on September 25, 1954, a single observation had been reported in Mansle, Charente, and he commented that it was "of very little interest."
[Ref. ppe1:] NEWSPAPER "PARIS-PRESSE":
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More saucers and flying cigars: In Lencouacq (Landes), Mrs. Vignolles stated she saw a flying cigar which landed gently in a meadow behind the presbytery. In Mansles (Charente), Mr. Martin saw the other night at around 2 a.m. a luminous disc heading from south to north. Several inhabitants of Villebois-Lavalette (Charente) also saw a craft which, after being immobilized for a few moments, quickly moved away.
Finally a P.T.T. employee of Bourges, Mr. Robert Patient, revealed that on the road to Vasselay he had been followed for several hundred meters by "a hemispherical and shining object" which had landed in a field and immediately left.
[Ref. aml1:] AIME MICHEL:
Ufologist Aimé Michel notes that on September 25, 1954, only one UFO observation was reported, "of very little interest," in Mansle, département of Charente.
[Ref. aml3:] AIME MICHEL:
Saturday September 25. Only one observation, in Mansle (Charente).
[Ref. gqy1:] GUY QUINCY:
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September 25 [1954]
?: Mansle (25 km N. Angoulême--Charente)
[Ref. gep1:] UFOLOGY GROUP "GEPO":
| 09/25/54 | ( ) | Mansles (Charentes) | 000V2 |
[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:
Luc Chastan indicates that in the Charente in Mansle on September 25, 1954, at an unknown hour, there was an "Observation of an object."
The source is indicated as "M.O.C. by Michel Aimé ** Arthaud 1958".
[Ref. uda1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:
The website indicates that on 25 September 1954 at 02:00 in Mansle, France, "Nocturnal lights were reported".
The sources are noted as Michel, Aime, Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, S. G. Phillips, New York, 1958; Vallee, Jacques, Computerized Catalog (N = 3073).
[Ref. ubk1:] "UFO-DATENBANK":
This database recorded this case twice:
| Case Nr. | New case Nr. | Investigator | Date of observation | Zip | Place of observation | Country of observation | Hour of observation | Classification | Comments | Identification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19540925 | 25.09.1954 | Mansle | France | 02.00 | ||||||
| 19540925 | 25.09.1954 | Mansle | France |
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Totally insufficient information.
The date given by Aimé Michel has no corroboration in a source of the time, so far.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Mansle, Charente, Martin, night, disc, luminous, movement, direction
[----] indicates sources that are not yet available to me.
| Version: | Created/Changed by: | Date: | Change Description: |
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| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | March 15, 2004 | First published. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | December 21, 2009 | Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Additions [lcn1], [uda1]. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | February 9, 2017 | Addition [ubk1]. |
| 1.2 | Patrick Gross | February 3, 2021 | Addition [ppe1]. |
| 1.3 | Patrick Gross | March 21, 2021 | Additions [aml3], [gqy1], Summary. |
| 1.4 | Patrick Gross | April 9, 2022 | Addition [gep1]. |
