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Reference for this case: 3-Oct-54-Milly-la-Forêt.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
Aimé Michel reports in 1958 that on October 3, 1954, a few minutes after 21:30, in Milly-la-Forêt which is at the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau not far from Barbizon, Mr. Mourouzeau left his restaurant "Le Coquibus" in company of three of his employees, whom he was going to lead to the bus stop of the bus of Gironville.
The four people suddenly saw in the direction of North in the sky a "red object in the shape of the half-moon" which they initially interpreted as being the Moon. But they realized that the Moon was not normally in this direction, and then saw the true Moon "in their back."
The object was motionless for a certain period during which "the shape of the object became more precise and changed, perhaps under the effect of an optical illusion", and the object approached while going down.
At the time when it had been at its nearest, the witnesses noted the shape of the object as being "a sort of reddish cigar accompanied with a small brilliant ring below it."
Then it disappeared towards the South behind the horizon after five or six minutes.
Aimé Michel notes that this observation was reported in the form of a small 10 lines paragraph in certain newspapers for October 5, 1954.
Around 2017, "skeptical" ufologist Dominique Caudron totally challenges Aimé Michel's version, quoting the article in the newspaper Le Parisien Libéré for October 5, 1954, page 5, found in the archive of Michel Jeantheau:
Around 9 pm, Mr. Mourouzeau, a restaurant owner at "Coquibus" in Milly-la-Forêt, was driving three employees to the bus to Gironville; it was during the journey that he was intrigued "by an object that appeared in the sky.It had the shape of a half-lume, which first deceived.But the moon, the real, being behind he, M. Mourouzeau had to admit that the phenomenon was inexplicable.In descending, the shape of the object became more precise or modified, perhaps for a question of optics: it was a kind of red cigar, accompanied below a brighter ring. "
"The vision lasted 5 to 6 minutes according to the witnesses, then disappeared in the distant horizon in the plain."
Dominique Caudron defends that the witness had in this journey the moon in front of him to about ten degrees on his left and thus could not have seen any moon behind him. He thinks the journalist had to tell "bullshit" since Mr. Mourouzaud should have recognized the moon.
[Ref. lpv1:] NEWSPAPER "LE PETIT VAROIS":
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Paris. -- The "flying saucers", which poison the Western skies whenever important international events occur, extend their field of action over the African continent.
An official report to the Government of the Ivory Coast by the administrator of the Danane subdivision, 500 kilometers north-west of Abidjan, reported a "phenomenon" observed on 19 September, 8:30 p.m. to 09:05 p.m., by the said head of subdivision, Mr. Vernhet, his wife and Reverend Yvard, gathered in the courtyard of the Residence.
It was a luminous spot surrounded by a halo which at first grew rapidly, moving towards or away from the horizon. The witnesses saw the machine lighting a powerful headlight, sometimes directed upwards, sometimes downwards. The ovoid-shaped craft was surmounted by a cupola, and light rays seemed to be detached from each side.
When it disappeared after half an hour, the witnesses saw clearly - according to the report - two halos of light, oval in shape, forming at the presumed location of the craft which moved without any noise.
The same day, at Soubre, 250 kilometers north-west of Abidjan, similar phenomena were observed by the head of subdivision.
In France, flowering flourishes, passing through all forms of flying crockery: in Corbigny (Nièvre), it is a luminous orange disc moving vertically; in Breuil-Caussée [sic] (Deux-Sèvres) it is a diver mounted on a plate that scared an employee of the center of slaughter; in Vron (Somme), it is a millstone around which strange individuals prowl and flies away; in Levroux (Indre), it is a luminous machine 1 meter in diameter that is spotted "at the height of the buildings" by two widows of the area, and in Vatan (also in the Indre), it is a ball that 15 people see dancing like a dancer. In Milly-la-Forêt (S.-et-O.) it is a half-moon surmounted by a ring that appears to a restaurant owner.
Finally, on Monday in Chamonix for more than an hour, the officers of the high mountain school, many gendarmes of Chamonix and a pilot specializing in high-altitude flight flying over the region at that time followed the moves of a brilliant machine of bizarre form between Mount Lachat and Mount Blanc.
If one addresses the most qualified scientific circles, there are two attitudes: that of refusing to answer on the pretext that the problem does not exist and that of critically examining the published testimonies and to provide public opinion, confused and excited by the Press, the positive element allowing to recognize the natural phenomena.
This latter attitude is that of Professor Evry Schatzman, a research fellow at the Institute of Astrophysics and a lecturer at the Sorbonne, to whom we have asked to enlighten our readers.
"Is it true that scientists are beginning to take the flying saucers seriously?"
- I have never met any astronomer who believes the flying saucer stories [ast]. I have personally read many books on this subject, seeking to grasp the exact meanings of the testimonies reported. By admitting descriptions made in good faith - which is always to be doubted - it always results in a perplexity as to the elements that can be drawn from it. In the majority of cases they are incomprehensible: the precise hour, the duration, the exact direction of the "phenomenon" is not known, nor even if it occurred by day or night. Or they are made unreliable by details that cannot be distinguished. And they are reported with the intention of making believe in the mystery. When one has a precise and complete description, one can do what is at stake and which can make illusion for the heated imagination of a public knowingly deceived for commercial and political purposes.
- Can you describe such phenomena?
- The list is long and not yet exhausted, because it is necessary to take into account still unknown atmospheric and meteorological phenomena. Among the phenomena which may give rise to misunderstandings, these are the most characteristic, not to mention the "visions" prompted by the causes of popular anxiety, such as these parachutists spotted by artillerymen in May 1940, who every night shoot at... Venus!
1. The rising and setting of the planets (Especially Venus and Jupiter).
2. The "shooting stars" and the "fireballs": one tonne a day arrives on the earth. The light is produced by the heating of the aura on the meteoric trajectory. The smallest shooting stars visible to the naked eye are grains of matter of 1 milligram which vanish completely between 120 and 90 kilometers. Only the fast fall on the ground limits the complete destruction of the bolides, that a longer course in the atmosphere would also annihilate.
3. The phenomena of "parhelia", which give rise to false suns, together with halos, and which are explained by the presence in the upper atmosphere of hexagonal prismatic ice needles. The concentration of light rays (sun and moon) in calm air on these crystals produces luminous spots on the right and left of the sun or moon at an equal distance from the halo radius of 22 degrees 5. A halo occurs more with other suns or other moons, with a double angular diameter.
Thus the inhabitants of Péronne "believed to see" an unexpected sun eclipse on June 20 and 21. A normal halo of exceptional intensity occurred, about which Daniel Roguet, astronomical correspondent, described the effects in these terms:
"At certain times, depending on the cirrhus [sic] variation, the inside of the halo was very dark gray-black and the iridescent colors of the halo as bright as those of a beautiful rainbow, beyond it, a milky sky, slightly ocher, forming a magnificent contrast with the central part".
4. The high-voltage power line balls that serve as landmarks for aviators were recently mistaken for mysterious craft by cyclists who at night saw these balls swept by the lighthouse of an airfield.
5. Weather balloons from meteorologists.
6. Ball lightning: these are configurations that occur at certain thunderstorms, with a precarious charge balance.
7. The phenomenon of mirage in the atmosphere. You know how it happens on the ground: the light rays do not propagate in a straight line in hot air, but they just reflect on the film of overheated air, for example by the road tar during the summer. You think you see puddles of water in front of you [mir1]. The inversion of temperature at altitude also causes a change in the index of refraction: hence the effect for an aviator to see a spot of light go straight ahead, while this point has its real source on the ground. [mir2]
The object, which always seems to be at the speed of the airman, is, moreover, characteristic of the object situated at very great distances.
- But is it not possible to scientifically design terrestrial craft comparable to the "saucers" seen here and there?
No, for the great velocities of which the "witnesses" claim these "machines" are animated could only be reached in regions of rarefied air, at the limit of the atmosphere. The mechanical action of the air on their surface would soon have dispersed the molecules of the substance which they would be made of.
In short, to summarize the scholar's thought, there are three elements to be distinguished in these flying saucers stories:
1. A scientific element: discussion of observations, explanation of natural phenomena, sociological explanation of the phenomena of collective hallucination [hal].
2. A logical element: inconsistency of opinions and testimonies.
3. A political element: excitement of public opinion, substitution of imaginary problems for real problems, etc. [pol]
Mr. Evry Schatzman has enumerated the phenomena of vision, false perception, and hallucinations which may explain the most precise and complete testimonies-which are a minor infirmity and always subject to caution.
There is no scientist to take seriously the assumptions made by scientific writers, science-fiction specialists and members of the Pentagon [pol], who have also renounced the theory of extraterrestrial craft, as revealed in the last book by Mr. Keyhoe.
The saucers museum is always empty of exhibits. And it is difficult to admit, if the "saucers" are terrestrial craft, that we never collected a single fragment [fra], never heard the supersonic detonation [sup], nor ever observed a perturbation in the air.
It should also be noted that "saucers" and "other cigarillos" seem to be systematically missig in the Soviet skies, Chinese skies and people's democratic countries... [pol] [est]
This is not the place to comment on the "true" - there are - and the "false" in the remarks attributed to Evry Schatzman; I wanted to make a few brief comments anyway:
[ast] This is literally true: Evry Schatzman certainly never met an astronomer "giving cfrredence to the saucer stories". What would be false is to claim that none existed (Hynek, La Paz, Tombaugh...)
[pol] Like many other French scientists of that time, Evry Schatzman was a Marxist, with an devotion to the ideology of the USSR. It had been claimed in these circles that the "saucers" were "political", that is, the "Pentagon" used them to make people anxious, whereas Communist countries would not do such a thing.
[est] It is totally false that there were no "saucers" in the Communist countries. Read Boris Shurinov, Felix Zigel, for example.
[mir1] It must be understood that the mirages on the ground do not make appear "saucers" nor "spacecraft".
[mir2] Evry Schatzman believed correct the ideas of the "skeptic" American astronomer Donald Menzel. They are without foundation on this matter; there has never been anything like a "luminous mirage in the sky". What can happen is a refraction of radar waves, detecting objects on the ground (truck, boats) and then showing them on the radar screens - but with the speed of movement and the trajectory of the truck or boat... The radarists of the time had to recognize them as such; later, these "false echoes", these radar returns of slow objects on the ground were filtered electronically so thatthe radar men did not have to bother about them anymore.
[sup] It is the French scientist Jean-Pierre Petit who later showed how even with our already known technologies (MHD), it would be possible to suppress the sonic boom. The argument could stand in 1954, it should no longer be used.
[fra] There is no shortage of cases with "fragments"; certainly often debatable if not debunked. The museum of the saucers remains to be built, no one having ever been concerned to preserve correctly the most intriguing fragments.
[hal] Mistakes are obviously not "collective hallucinations", the journalist does not seem to understand. Misinterpretations and collective misinterpretations exist, "collective hallucinations" simply do not exist. The problem is very rarely a "false perception", it is often a "false interpretation".
[Ref. aml1:] AIME MICHEL:
Aimé Michel reports that on October 3, 1954, a few minutes after 21:30, in Milly-la-Forêt which is at the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau not far from Barbizon, Mr. Mourouzeau left his restaurant "Le Coquibus" in company of three of his employees, whom he was going to lead to the bus stop of the bus of Gironville.
The four people suddenly saw in the direction of North in the sky a "red object in the shape of the half-moon" which they initially interpreted as being the Moon. But they realized that the Moon was not normally in this direction, and then saw the true Moon "in their back."
The object was motionless for a certain period during which "the shape of the object became more precise and changed, perhaps under the effect of an optical illusion", and the object approached while going down.
At the time when it had been at its nearest, the witnesses noted the shape of the object as being "a sort of reddish cigar accompanied with a small brilliant ring below it."
Then it disappeared towards the South behind the horizon after five or six minutes.
Aimé Michel notes that this observation was reported in the form of a small 10 lines paragraph in certain newspapers for October 5, 1954.
[Ref. gqy1:] GUY QUINCY:
October 3 [, 1954]
[... other cases...]
09:30 p.m.: Milly-la-Forêt(Seine-et-Oise):cigar + sml. red ring below
[... other cases...]
[Ref. aml2:] AIME MICHEL:
In an article in 1963, Aimé Michel adds:
b) a low-size object that witnesses saying their were close describe as like circular, hemispherical on the top, changing aspect in the bottom. In the night and in flight, the object is generally luminous, the reddish, orange or gilded top, the lower part likely to emit green, white, red, purple colors, either separately, or simultaneously; the closest witnesses state that, in this latter case (simultaneous emission of several colors), the sources of light are sort of small verticals rods under the object which were seen appearing, disappearing, exchanging between them their colors and thus giving an impression of whirling, for example, October 3, 1954, in Armentières, in Château-Chinon, in Montbeliard, and other dates a little everywhere in the world). Instead of the small rods, under the main object, sometimesappears a smaller object, very luminous, interdependent of the first but likely to go down vertically below him (for example, this same 3 October, in Marcoing, in Liévin, Ablain-St-Nazaire, Milly, Champigny).
[Ref. jve7:] JACQUES VALLEE:
Jacques Vallée indicates that in the northern area of France on October 3, 1954, at about 9:30 p.m. a witness living a few miles east of Paris had seen an object dividing itself into two luminous points like stars. These later reunited and after a series of maneuvers scrupulously noted by the witness, left toward the south. At approximately the same time, four persons in Milly-la-Forêt saw precisely the same sort of phenomenon, which they described as an object "in the shape of a half-moon" at first, but they soon realized that the moon was visible behind them; it was in first quarter two days later. After an interval of immobility, the object came lower and became more clearly visible as it approached the place where the four persons were standing. They described its shape then as "a kind of reddish cigar accompanied below by a small shining ring."
[Ref. jve5:] JACQUES VALLEE:
| 222 | -002.46861 | 48.40200 | 03 | 10 | 1954 | 21 | 30 | 102 | MILLY LA FORET | F | 3014 | C** | 206 |
[Ref. gab1:] UFOLOGY GROUP "G.A.B.R.I.E.L.":
The antennas offer little information, on the other hand the lower rods are much more interesting because they are one of the particularities of a very precise type of "Flying Saucer". We will have the opportunity to come back to it, but let us point out right away that their presence is the cause of a very colorful term: the "Jellyfish Saucer". There is no shortage of observations of this type of device, we were spoiled for choice with (Hérissart, Liévin, Rue, Marcoing, Armentières, Milly, Champigny, Corbigny, [...] ... and this is only for France), [...]
(The part from which this excerpt is taken is about the question of the "antennae" of some "flying saucers". Of the cases quoted here, none is valid: those for which one could speak of "jellyfish saucer" are explained as misinterpretations, the others are cases for whichs there is no mention of antenna or anything of this kind in the reports.)
[Ref. fru1:] MICHEL FIGUET AND JEAN-LOUIS RUCHON:
The authors indicate that witnesses wrote to Aimé Michel to tell him that they saw a cigar split in two and moving away towards the South at 09:30 p.m. in Champigny-Milly in the Yonne.
[Ref. gep1:] UFOLOGY GROUP "GEPO":
| 10/03/54 | (21.30) | Milly la Foret Fontainebleau | 3076V2 |
[Ref. lgs1:] LOREN GROSS:
Milly-la-Foret, France. (9:30 p.m.)
A pair of "big stars" danced in the sky just east of Paris at 9:30 p.m. and then moved south. Meanwhile, a "half-moon-shaped" object was viewed hovering above Milly for a time and then it dipped' to a lower altitude where witnesses could see that the thing was: "... a kind of reddish cigar accompanied below by a small shinning ring." 33.
[Ref. lhh1:] LARRY HATCH - "*U* COMPUTER DATABASE":
3949: 1954/10/03 21:30 8 2:28:00 E 48:24:00 N 3333 WEU FRN ESN 5:8
MILLY-LA-FORET,FR:RED NLT DIVIDES+MNVRS+REUNITES:>>S:same seen E/PARIS:NFD
Ref# 2 VALLEE:UFOS IN SPACE:Anatomy/phenon. Page No. 221 : TOWN &CITY
[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:
Luc Chastan indicates that in the Essonne in Milly la foret on October 3, 1954 at 21:35 hours, the witness came out of his restaurant "Coquibus" in company of three of the employees, that he was going to drive or was driving to the Gironville bus stop. The four people suddenly saw in the sky in the direction of the North an "object in the red shape of a half-moon" which they initially interpreted as being the Moon. But they realized that the Moon was not normally in this direction, and then saw the true Moon "in their back." The object was motionless for a certain time during which " the shape of the object became clearer and changed, perhaps under the effect of an optical illusion", the object approached while going down. At the time when it had been the closest, the witnesses noted the shape of the object as being "a kind of cigar reddish accompanied of a a small brilliant ring below." Then it disappeared towards the South behind the horizon after five or six minutes.
Luc Chastan indicates that the source is "M.O.C. by Michel Aimé ** Arthaud 1958".
[Ref. uda1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:
The website indicates that on 3 October 1954 21:30 in "Milly.Foret, France", an "unusual object was sighted, that had unconventional appearance and performance. One object was observed by four witnesses in a town for five minutes (Mourouzeau). "
The sources are indicated as Michel, Aime, Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, S. G. Phillips, New York, 1958; 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); Vallee, Jacques, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, Henry Regnery, Chicago, 1965; Hatch, Larry, *U* computer database, Author, Redwood City, 2002.
[Ref. dcn1] DOMINIQUE CAUDRON:
Dominique Caudron indicates that the catalogue of 800 cases published in 1970 by Maurice Santos, is a good example of what one should not do; he indicates to extract from it the list of the cases of October 3, 1954; which he knows well as he had investigated into these cases of his area of Nord. For each case, below the text of the Santos catalogue, he states what should have been written, and the explanation after analysis, when there is one.
Santos wrote that for this case #542 of October 3, 1954, of "Various Forms" there had been in Milly an Unknown Object Flying in the shape of cigar.
Dominique Caudron says that around 21 hours, in Milly-the-Forest, 91, a restorer driving his three employees towards Milly saw a kind of half-moon "whereas the true moon was in their back (in the N-E!). (in fact: The Moon)"
He notes that the numbering of the cases by Santos seemed a good idea, but that it prevents the evolution of the catalogue, whose numbering becomes incoherent at the first update: "For example, this catalogue contains only 10 cases for the area of the Nord, whereas we know 48 of them. How to place the 38 others?"
[Ref. ubk1:] "UFO-DATENBANK":
This database recorded this case 4 times instead of one:
| Case Nr. | New case Nr. | Investigator | Date of observation | Zip | Place of observation | Country of observation | Hour of observation | Classification | Comments | Identification |
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| 19541003 | 03.10.1954 | Milly Foret | France | 21.30 | NL | |||||
| 19541003 | 03.10.1954 | Milly Foret | France | 21.30 | ||||||
| 19541003 | 03.10.1954 | Milly Foret | France | 21.30 | ||||||
| 19541003 | 03.10.1954 | Milly Foret | France | NL |
[Ref. dcn2:] DOMINIQUE CAUDRON:
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- Sunday evening, around 9 p.m., Mr. Mourouzeau, restorer at the "Coquibus", in Milly-la-Forêt, drove three employees to the bus to Gironville when he was suddenly intrigued by an object that appeared in the sky. It had the shape of a half-moon, which deceived him first. But the moon, the real one, being behind him, M. Mourouzeau had to admit that the phenomenon was inexplicable. On descending, the shape of the object became more precise or modified, perhaps because of a matter of optics: it was a kind of red cigar, accompanied below by a brighter ring.
The vision lasted 5 to 6 minutes according to the witnesses, then disappeared in the distant horizon in the plain.
(Le Parisien libéré, October 5, 1954, page 5, archive Michel Jeantheau)
One wonders where this statement comes from that Mr. Mourouzeau had the real moon behind him. He drove his employees to the bus to Gironville, which is west of Milly. He was driving towards Milly, that is towards the west. In doing so, he was only able to discover the object at the outlet of the forest, after which the road turns towards the azimuth 237°. At about 9 p.m., the moon was in the 225° azimuth, and set at 9:29 p.m. in the 230° azimuth. Mr. Mourouzeau had the moon in front of him, about ten degrees to his left.
In addition, the object had the same appearance as the moon. How could M. Mourouzeau not recognize it and see an inexplicable phenomenon? It is to wonder if the journalist does not tell us bullshit. But this bullshit is the case of Aimé Michel who will add some of his own by comparing the observations of Champigny and Milly:
1. The hours are the same.
Note: There is a 1/2 hour difference, but the examination of the hours given for October 3rd shows that the hours indicated are often incorrect by a quarter of an hour.
2. Champigny's witnesses see in the south what Milly's witnesses see in the north. Champigny and Milly are on the same meridian line 45 kilometers apart. The only difference is that the second group sees the phenomenon appear in the north and disappear to the south, but that also confirms the identity of the phenomenon, and shows moreover that the observed maneuver of Champigny took place somewhere between the two localities.
Note: Absolutely wrong. The Champigny witness saw the object to the southwest, like those of Milly.
3. The description of the phenomenon itself is equally convincing. The last part of the Champigny sighting describes a single object that is quite close and then goes south, splitting in two. Now, what did Milly's witnesses say? That they saw towards the north a red half-moon-shaped object, which soon came closer (and therefore moved southwards), deformed and finally presented itself in the form of a "red cigar" surmounting a "small brilliant ring". The concordance is striking.
Note: This concordance exists only in the head of Aimé Michel, because there is nothing true in the interpretation that he gives of the two testimonies. On the other hand, remembering that it was the moon in both cases, there is indeed a concordance.
(Aimé Michel, Mystérieux Objets Célestes, Arthaud 1958, p 207)
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The farm / restaurant "Le Coquibus" still exists in 2011:
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So, this was on October 3, 1954, around 9 p.m. at "le Coquibus", 48° 24' 22'' North, 2° 30' 55'' East, near Milly-la-Forêt.
The Moon was then at the azimuth of 220° 47' (approximately Southwest) and the slight elevation of 5° 32', conducive to misinterpretation.
There is still in 2018 a bus line joining Milly-la-Forêt and Gironville. From the Coquibus to Milly-la-Forêt, there are about 3 kilometers, while Gironville is 23 km to the south of Milly-la-Forêt. It is therefore logical to think, like Dominique Caudron does, that Mr. Mourouzeau took his passengers by the D 837 to a bus stop located at Milly-la-Forêt.
As the road is generally oriented towards the west, the Moon being to the Southwest of the witnesses, it is indeed impossible for them to have seen it behind them, since it was overall in front of them between 40° and 10° on their left depending to the point of their travel where they were.
The Moon was in its last crescent, with 36.6% of its surface illuminated.
It must be explained that the appearance is described as that of the Moon at first, then as that of a "kind of red cigar, accompanied below of a brighter ring." It is quite simple: it was a Red Moon and the upper part of the Moon's crescent had to emerge from a lower cloud or a bench of mist then placed in the line of sight, where at its bottom, moonlight was diffused. A dissonance here is that this ring should not be brighter than the visible tip of the crescent above.
There are errors, or at least discrepancies with "Le Parisien", in the report presented by Aimé Michel:
In fact, the irony of the whole story is that the witnesses would have mistaken the Moon in their Southwest for a UFO, while there would have been a UFO behind them in the Northeast... wgih they mistook for the moon!
What was behind them in the sky, and big enough to be mistaken for the Moon, whereas it cannot have been the Moon? We will probably never know. Dominique Caudron thinks that this information was invented by the journalist. Maybe, maybe not.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Milly-la-Forêt, Essonne, cigar, half-moon, crescent, red, reddish, ring, shiny, manoeuver, motionless
[----] indicates sources that are not yet available to me.
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| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | June 21, 2010 | Addition [jve5]. |
| 1.2 | Patrick Gross | July 7, 2010 | Addition [jve7]. |
| 1.3 | Patrick Gross | October 14, 2016 | Addition [dcn1]. |
| 1.4 | Patrick Gross | December 16, 2016 | Additions [lgs1], [ubk1]. |
| 1.5 | Patrick Gross | February 17, 2017 | Addition [lpv1]. |
| 1.6 | Patrick Gross | May 23, 2019 | Additions [lhh1], [dcn2], Summary. In the Explanations, removal of "Not looked for yet" and "The witnesses saw the object in front of them, and at the same time could turn around and see the moon behind them" and "It is not explicitely said that the witnesse were already in a car to the bus at the time of the sighting." |
| 1.7 | Patrick Gross | April 19, 2022 | Additions [gqy1], [gep1]. |
| 1.8 | Patrick Gross | July 15, 2022 | Addition [gab1]. |
