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September 28, 1954, Vaudeurs, Yonne:

Reference for this case: 28-Sep-54-Vaudeurs.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Summary:

In his 1958 book on the French wave of 1954, Aimé Michel stated that on September 28, 1954, at about 8:30 p.m., in Vaudeurs, two witnesses saw a shining object in the north crossing the sky from west to east.

Reports:

[Ref. aml1:] AIME MICHEL:

Aimé Michel indicates that in Vaudeurs, 30 kilometers east-south-east of Sens and a few kilometers in the south of the Redon-Froncles line, two witnesses saw at approximately 08:30 p.m. a shining object cross the northern sky from west to east.

[Ref. gqy1:] GUY QUINCY:

September 28, 1954

[... Other cases...]

08:30 p.m.: Pont-sur-Yonne/Vaudeurs (Yonne): lum.obj.

[... Other cases...]

[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:

Luc Chastan indicates that in the Yonne in Vaudeurs on September 28, 1954 at 20:30 hours, "Two witnesses observe a shining object towards the north. It crosses the sky from west to east."

The source is indicated as "M.O.C. by Michel Aimé ** Arthaud 1958".

[Ref. uda1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:

The website indicates that on 28 September 1954 at 20:30 in Vaudeurs, France, "An unidentified object was sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. One object was observed by two witnesses."

The source is noted as Michel, Aime, Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, S. G. Phillips, New York, 1958.

[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
19540928			28.09.1954		Vaudeurs	France	20.30	NL

Explanations:

No strangeness is reported here, the object could have been a meteor or a plane, for example.

Keywords:

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

Vaudeurs, Yonne, object, shining

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, English version of "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", S.G. Phillips publisher, France, page 86, 1958.
[gqy1] "Observations 1954", monograph by Guy Quincy, France - Algeria, private publication, page 8, the 1950's.
[aml1] "A Propos des Soucoupes Volantes", book by Aimé Michel, reprint of "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", Planète publishers, France, pp 121-122, 1966.
[aml1] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Seghers publisher, France, page 132, 1977.
[aml1] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Robert Laffont publisher, France, page 132, 1978.
[lcn1] Base OVNI France, website by Luc Chastan, France, circa 2006, at baseovnifrance.free.fr/listgen.php?typlist=1&page=0&numobs=2324
[uda1] "28 Sep 1954 - Vaudeurs, France", web page by the UFOdna website, circa 2008, at www.ufodna.com/uf02/uf1/021348.htm
[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	December 15, 2005	First published.
1.0	Patrick Gross	December 21, 2009	Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Additions [uda1], [lcn1].
1.1	Patrick Gross	February 10, 2017	Addition [ubk1].
1.2	Patrick Gross	September 28, 2019	Addition of the Summary.
1.3	Patrick Gross	November 20, 2021	Addition [gqy1].

This page was last updated on November 20, 2021.