The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this website is here.
Reference for this case: 30-Sep-54-Monpazier.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
A German web database of UFO sightings indicates circa 2010 that there was a sighting on September 30, 1954, at 08:00 p.m. in Monpazier in France.
No source and no other information was given.
In 2025, I was able to find this sighting in an article from the regional newspaper Le Journal de Biarritz et de la Côte Basque for October 8, 1954.
This newspaper reported that Mrs. Monnier, living at the Castle of Biron near Monpazier in the Dordogne department, had observed "an orange ball the size of a small melon from which a sort of cigar emerged."
[Ref. jbz1:] JOURNAL "LE JOURNAL DE BIARRITZ":
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We announced yesterday the discovery in ESCOUT near Oloron, of a mysterious balloon attached to a kind of kite.
This balloon was transported from the Oloron gendarmerie to the gendarmerie company in Pau. The latter passed it on to the military subdivision.
According to initial observations, it seems to be a device used by air bases for radar detection exercises.
FROM MELON TO BANANA
Mrs. Monnier, living in the Château de Biron, near Monpazier (Dordogne), observed an orange ball the size of a small melon from which emerged a sort of cigar.
Mr. Jean Dubreuilh, a bank employee in Blaye, who was in the company of his wife, saw in the sky, just above the train station, a luminous banana giving off an orange glow.
Two residents of Cissac, Miss Ducasse and Mr. Couty, saw a flying saucer.
A SUPPOSED MARTIAN IN HAUTE-MARNE
Chaumont. -- Mr. André Narcy, a roadmender in Mertrud (Haute-Marne) claims to have seen, in the middle of a field, a strange machine, a kind of spherical saucer ten meters in diameter, into which a little man about 1.20 m tall rushed.
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[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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19540930 | 30.09.1954 | Montpazier | France | 20.00 |
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Totally insufficient information.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Monpazier, Dordogne, night, Monnier, Château de Biron, ball, cigar, orange
[----] indicates sources that are not yet available to me.
| Version: | Created/Changed by: | Date: | Change Description: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | March 9, 2017 | First published. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | November 9, 2019 | Addition of the Summary. |
| 1.2 | Patrick Gross | August 31, 2025 | Addition [jbz1]. In the Summary, addition of the information from [jbz1]. |
