The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this website is here.
Reference for this case: 29-Nov-54-Bourbon-L'Archambault.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
The ufology magazine Lumières Dans La Nuit of October 1973 published in a catalogue of the 1954 sighting reports in the Allier department, about an observation reported in the Centre-Matin newspaper for December 3, 1954:
At 08:30 pm, in Bourbon-l'Archambault, an orange-colored object arrived slowly from the south-west, stopped for a moment, turned around and appeared in the shape of a cigar, which disappeared in the clouds.
The same month the Ouranos ufology magazine published the same information, only adding that the craft was cresent-shaped when it arrived.
[Ref. ous1:] UFOLOGY MAGAZINE "OURANOS":
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11/29/1954, Bourbon-l'Archambault (08:30 p.m.)
A crescent-shaped orange-colored apparatus slowly arrived from the southwest, stopped for a moment, and turned around to disappear into the clouds. It then appeared in the form of a cigar. (Centre Matin for 11/03/1954)
[Ref. ldl1:] UFOLOGY MAGAZINE "LUMIERES DANS LA NUIT":
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November 29 (Centre Matin for 12/3) Bourbon-l'Archambault
08:30 p.m.. An orange object arrived slowly from the SW. He styed motionless for a moment, turned around and appeared in the form of a cigar that disappeared in the clouds.
[Ref. ioi1:] UFOLOGY BULLETIN "INFO OVNI":
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060 11/29/54 08:30 p.m. Bourbon l'Archambault
Orangeish crescent hovering for a while and makes a U urn
[Ref. lhh1:] LARRY HATCH - "*U* COMPUTER DATABASE":
4431: 1954/11/29 20:30 1 3:03:00 E 46:35:00 N 3333 WEU FRN ALR 6:6
BOURBON-l'ARCHAMBAULT,FR:ORG.CGR > NE:STOPS:SHOOTS BACK >>SW INTO CLOUDS
Ref#194 LUMIERES dans la NUIT.(LDLN France) Issue No. 128 : RESIDENT'L
[Ref. djn1:] DONALD JOHNSON:
On this Day
November 29
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1954 - At 8:30 p.m. an orange cigar-shaped object flew toward the northeast from Bourbon-L'Archambault, Allier, France. It stopped in midair, then shot back toward the southwest into the clouds. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4198, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #128).
[Ref. uda1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:
The website indicates that on 29 November 1954 at 20:30 in Bourbon-l'Archambault, France, "Orange cigar flies toward to the northeast, stops, shoots back rapidly to the southwest into clouds."
And: "At 8:30 p.m. an orange cigar-shaped object flew toward the northeast from Bourbon-L'Archambault, Allier, France. It stopped in midair, then shot back toward the southwest into the clouds."
And: "A cigar-shaped object was observed. One orange cigar-shaped object was observed in cloudy weather in a residential area for over one minute."
The source is indicated as "Hatch, Larry, *U* computer database, Author, Redwood City, 2002".
[Ref. nip1:] "THE NICAP WEBSITE":
*Nov. 29, 1954 - At 8:30 p.m. an orange cigar-shaped object flew toward the northeast from Bourbon-L'Archambault, Allier, France. It stopped in midair, then shot back toward the southwest into the clouds. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4198, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #128).
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The report is very poor, this might have been a noctilucent cloud, or maybe a plane.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Bourbon-L'Archambault, Allier, orange, cigar, object, fast, stop, clouds
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| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | October 19, 2014 | Addition [nip1]. |
| 1.2 | Patrick Gross | November 29, 2018 | Additions [ous1], [ldl1], [lhh1]. Addition of the Summary. Explanations changed, was "Not looked for yet." |
| 1.3 | Patrick Gross | June 5, 2022 | Addition [ioi1]. |
