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May 30, 1954, Buffon, Côte-d'Or:

Reference for this case: 30-May-54-Buffon.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Summary:

According to the ufology bulletin of the ADRUP group, Vimana 21, No. 10-11, of the 3^rd quarter of 1982, the regional newspaper Le Bien Public for June 2, 1954, reported the following observation:

On the night of May 30, 1954, from Sunday to Monday, between Buffon and St-Rémy, in the direction of Montigny, motorists had their attention attracted by a flamboyant disk about five times the size of a star. It was moving slowly in the sky. At a certain time, these people had a clear impression that this curious phenomenon was falling into space before resuming an accelerated move.

The newspaper said, "Everyone who has seen this disc is of the same opinion as to the information provided."

Ufologist Jacques Vallée had entered this as a UFO in his computer catalog, with only the date, the place, a probably invented time of 11:55 p.m.; which was copied by others.

Reports:

[Ref. jve5:] JACQUES VALLEE:

[Ref. via1:] UFOLOGY MAGAZINE "VIMANA 21" - ADRUP:

The source is given as the newspaper Le Bien Public.

[Ref. via2:] "VIMANA 21" UFOLOGY BULLETIN:

[Ref. via3:] UFOLOGY MAGAZINE "VIMANA 21" - ADRUP:

This magazine listed this case:

[Ref. uda1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:

The website indicates that on 30 May 1954 at 23:55 between Buffon and St Remy, Buffon, France, "An unidentified object was sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. One object was observed by six witnesses for over 15 minutes. Explanation: Re-entry."

The sources are indicated as *Vallee, Jacques, Computerized Catalog (N = 3073); Vallee, Jacques, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, Henry Regnery, Chicago, 1966; Vallee, Jacques, Preliminary Catalog (N = 500), (in JVallee01)."

[Ref. ubk1:] "UFO-DATENBANK":

Explanations:

The mere fact of the absence of any indication of duration of observation by the newspaper Le Bien Public leaves room for the possibility of a meteor. And a plane or a helicopter are not to be excluded either for this observation which seems without strangeness.

Between Buffon and Saint-Rémy, there are less than 2 kilometers. Montigny-sur-Aube is at 45 km in the Northeast of these villages.

Keywords:

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

Buffon, Côte-d'Or, Saint-Rémy, night, multiple, disc, slow, fast, flaming, luminous

Sources:

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

• [----] Article in the regional newspaper Le Bien Public, Dijon, France, June 2, 1954.
• [jve5] "Catalogue préliminaire de 500 observations", listing in "Les Phénomènes Insolites de l'Espace", book by Jacques and Jannine Vallée, Table Ronde publisher, France, 1966.
• [jve5] "Catalogue préliminaire de 500 observations", listing in "Les Phénomènes Insolites de l'Espace", book by Jacques and Jannine Vallée, Robert Laffont publisher, France, page 248, 1978.
• [via1] "Catalogue, in the ufology bulletin Vimana 21, A.D.R.U.P. ufology group, France, #10-11, page 10, 3^rd quarter 1982.
• [via2] "Catalogue départemental observations OVNIS, in the ufology bulletin Vimana 21, A.D.R.U.P. ufology group, France, #17, page 13, 4^th quarter 1984.
• [via3] "Listing fichier ADRUP", in the ufology magazine Vimana 21, A.D.R.U.P. ufology group, France, #17, 4^th quarter 1984.
• [uda1] "30 May 1954 - Buffon, France", web page by the UFOdna website, circa 2008, at www.ufodna.com/uf01/uf9/019920.htm
• [ubk1] Online database UFO-Datenbank, Germany, found in 2016, at ufodatenbank.de

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