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Reference for this case: 29-Oct-54-Colmar.
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On October 30, 1954, the regional newspaper Les Dernières Nouvelles du Haut-Rhin reported a sighting of October 29, 1954, around 10:40 a.m., in Colmar in the Haut-Rhin, told to the newspaper by a reader:
Several people who were on Place du Saumon (Salmon Square) had noticed a "mysterious celestial body" in the north of Colmar, going at a high speed from the West to the East.
The object was oval shaped, it was whitish, shiny, it was flying at the height of the cirrus clouds.
No engine noise was heard and the object did not look like an airplane; observers have therefore concluded that it might be one of the mysterious flying saucers that were talked about so much at the time.
[Ref. dnh1:] "DERNIERES NOUVELLES DU HAUT-RHIN" NEWSPAPER:
A reader informs us: Yesterday morning, about 10:40 a.m., several people who were on Place du Saumon [Salmon square], noticed a mysterious celestial body north of Colmar and going at high speed from West to East (Vosges - Black Forest). The object was oval shaped, whitish, shiny and flew up to the clouds (Cirrus). You could not hear engine sounds and the object did not look like a plane, so that the observers concluded that it could be one of those mysterious flying saucers.
[Ref. cvn1:] CHRISTIAN VALENTIN:
Former journalist Christian Valentin indicates that on October 29, 1954, at 10:40, in Colmar, several inhabitants followed from the place of Saumon a celestial body of ovoid shape, of shining white color, moving in a rectilinear trajectory from the eat to the west, without noise and at the level of the clouds.
[Ref. cvn2:] CHRISTIAN VALENTIN:
Fotmer journalist Christian Valentin published in 2012 a very interesting book about the history of UFO sightings in Alsace, from the beginning until 1980.
In this book, he indicated that there was a sighting on Friday, October 2, 1954, at 10:40 a.m. in Colmar in the Haut-Rhin department, told like this in the Dernières Nouvelles du Haut-Rhin newspaper for Saturday, October 30, 1954:
A reader informs us: Yesterday morning, about 10:40 a.m., several people who were on Place du Saumon [Salmon square], noticed a mysterious celestial body north of Colmar and going at high speed from West to East (Vosges - Black Forest). The object was oval shaped, whitish, shiny and flew up to the clouds (Cirrus). You could not hear engine sounds and the object did not look like a plane, so that the observers concluded that it could be one of those mysterious flying saucers.
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Possible plane or balloon.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Colmar, Haut-Rhin, multiple, ovoid, oval, shining, white, silent
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| Version: | Created/Changed by: | Date: | Change Description: |
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| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | October 30, 2005 | First published. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | March 5, 2010 | Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | October 30, 2011 | A search on the web and in my documentation did not reveal other sources. |
| 1.2 | Patrick Gross | May 1, 2015 | Additions [dnh1], [cvn2], Summary. |
