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Reference for this case: 27-Oct-54-Gargas.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
Ufologist and author Jean Sider published in 1997 that an article from the newspaper Le Provençal for October 30, 1954, told that on October 27 at 08:00 p.m., in Gargas in the Vaucluse, a motorist saw at the locality "L'usine de Mr. Tamisier" a big red ball, motionless in a ditch.
The witness was so frightened that he preferred to drive away at full speed.
[Ref. jsr1:] JEAN SIDER:
The ufologist and author Jean Sider learned by an article from the newspaper Le Provençal for October 30, 1954, that on October 27, 1954, at 08:00 p.m., in Gargas in the department of Vaucluse, a motorist saw at the locality "The Factory of Mr. Tamisier" a large motionless red ball in a ditch.
The witness who saw the machine was so frightened that he preferred to flee at full speed.
[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:
Luc Chastan indicates that in the Vaucluse in Gargas on October 27, 1954 at 20:00 hours "A motorist observes at the location the factory of MTamisier a large motionless red ball in a ditch. Frightened he moves away from there at high speed."
The source is indicated as "Lumières dans la Nuit".
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The information is very poor: no distance, duration, direction, apparent size... And no trace of a ufology investigation on this observation.
Was it a red moon at the horizon? I checked the location of the moon on this date, time, and place.
The location of Gargas is 43° 54' 09" North, 5° 21' 26" East.
This explanation does not hold, since the Moon went below the horizon at 05:34 p.m. The case thus remains "unidentified", but it is of a quite low strangeness.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Gargas, Vaucluse, car, road, ditch, red, ball, frightened, night, motionless, large, landing
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| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | May 7, 2005 | First published. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | February 10, 2010 | Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Additions [lcn1]. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | December 19, 2018 | Addition of the Summary. Explanations changed, were "Not looked for yet." |
