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Reference for this case: 29-Dec-54-Saint-Avit-du-Moiron.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
A German web ufology database, circa 2016, indicated that there was a UFO sighting in "St. Avit Moiron" at 9 p.m. in December 29, 1954. No other detail and no source were provided.
[Ref. ubk1:] "UFO-DATENBANK":
In this database appears:
| Case Nr. | New case Nr. | Investigator | Date of observation | Zip | Place of observation | Country of observation | Hour of observation | Classification | Comments | Identification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19541229 | 29.12.1954 | St. Avit Moiron | France | 09.00 p.m. |
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Possible double-entry:
Saint-Avit-du-Moiron, and not "St. Avit Moiron", is an old French town of the Gironde department; which was later integrated into Saint-Avit-Saint-Nazaire.
"UFO-Datenbank" is the only source I could find to date reporting a case that day in this place. This database is customary for duplicates and various places given for one single case.
It turns out that there is a Saint-Avit-de-Vialard in the Dordogne. And there was a case that same day in the Dordogne, in Bru, recorded no less than 5 times by [ubk1] with "Bru" as a city and an hour of "21:00" also. It is therefore possible that [ubk1] was simply mistaken with the Saint-Avit name.
However, "Bru" is not a commune; it is probably a locality, which according to various sources is neither "near Gardanne" nor "near Gardonne" in the Dordogne. But Gardanne is in the Bouches-du-Rhone near Marseille, and Gardonne is 50 km by road from Saint-Avit-Saint-Nazaire. All this makes the situation very confusing, and so I leave this case apart from the case of Bru, waiting to find out more information.
"Saint-Avit-du-Moiron" does not exist since 1971, it is now grouped with Saint-Nazaire, and called Saint-Avit-Saint-Nazaire, in the Gironde department.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Saint-Avit-du-Moiron, Gironde, night
[----] indicates sources that are not yet available to me.
| Version: | Created/Changed by: | Date: | Change Description: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | October 20, 2016 | First published. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | November 27, 2018 | Addition of the Summary. |
