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October 28, 1954, Lanarvily, Finistère:

Reference for this case: 28-Oct-54-Lanarvily.
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Summary:

The regional newspaper La Liberté du Morbihan for October 29, 1954, reported that several inhabitants of the borough of Lanarvily had their attention attracted, in the night of October 28, 1954, by a glow caused by a red ball which moved in the sky.

Reports:

[Ref. llm1:] "LA LIBERTE DU MORBIHAN" NEWSPAPER:

A red ball in the Finisterian sky

BREST. -- Several inhabitants of the borough of Lanarvily had their attention drawn, last night, by a gleam caused by a red ball; which moved in the sky. A few days ago, other inhabitants of Lanarvily had seen in the sky an identical red ball, which trailed behind itself a luminous tail.

[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:

Luc Chastan indicates that in the Finistère in Lanarvily on October 28, 1954 at an unknown hour, "Several inhabitants of the borough of Lanarvily had their attention drawn, at night, by a gleam caused by a red ball which moved in the sky."

The source is indicated as "Les OVNI vus de près by Gross Patrick ** http://ufologie.net" (the old URL of my website's home page).

[Ref. voi1:] "ARCHIVES VIGIE OVNI 29":

Lanarvily ( 29 260 ), End October 1954, In the night ...

Testimony nr. FR 29 260 1954 10 .. .. ..

Available documents:

Explanations:

Lanarvily is at about 20 kilometers Northwest of Brest.

The moon having set at 06:30 p.m. before that night, one would rather think of a meteor. But the report is so poor that this is only one "possible" explanation among others.

Keywords:

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Lanarvily, Finistère, red, ball, multiple

Sources:

[----] indicates sources that are not yet available to me.

[llm1] Article in the newspaper La Liberté du Morbihan, France, page 10, October 29, 1954.
[lcn1] Base OVNI France, website by Luc Chastan, France, circa 2007, at baseovnifrance.free.fr/listgen.php?typlist=1&page=0&numobs=1227
[voi1] Web page of the Archives Vigie OVNI 29 website, France, not dated, found in 2017, at https://ufo29.jimdo.com/de-2010-%C3%A0-2019-14/de-1950-%C3%A0-1959-29/1954-29

Document history:

Version:	Created/Changed by:	Date:	Change Description:
0.1	Patrick Gross	October 23, 2004	First published.
1.0	Patrick Gross	February 23, 2010	Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Addition [lcn1].
1.1	Patrick Gross	February 7, 2017	Addition [voi1].
1.2	Patrick Gross	December 25, 2018	Addition of the Summary. Explanation changed, was "Not looked for yet."

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