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October 5, 1954, unknown place, Côtes-du-Nord:

Reference for this case: 5-Oct-54-cotes-du-nord.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Summary:

In January 1955, in his magazine The Saucerian, in an article about the occupants of the flying saucers in France in 1954, the American Gray Barker reports without giving a source that a traveling salesman of the Côtes-du-Nord saw "a quite unusual phenomenon."

It was a pink-colored flying cigar. Out of it stepped a zebra-striped creature which changed color, from red to green, like a chameleon.

One finds, perhaps, this case only in a web database; which had only one record for "Côtes-du-Nord", with the dates October 5, 1954.

Reports:

[Ref. gbr1:] GRAY BARKER:

And a traveling salesman of the Cotes-du-Nord saw a quite unusual phenomenon. It was a pink-colored flying cigar. Out of it stepped a zebra-striped creature which changed color, from red to green, like a chameleon.

[Ref. gep1:] UFOLOGY GROUP "GEPO":

10/05/54

(soir)

Cotes Nord and La Rochelle

100X

[Ref. nip1:] "THE NICAP WEBSITE":

*Oct. 5, 1954 - A farmer saw a humanoid occupant inside a UFO on this evening in Cote du Nord, France. (Source: Jimmy Guieu, Fying Saucers Come from Another World, p. 195; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 217).

[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
19541005			05.10.1954		Cotes du Nord	France

Explanations:

Very dubious case.

The date must be taken with cautious as I cannot guarantee that [ubk1] is the proper match for [gbr1].

"Côtes-du-Nord" were a French department in Brianny, renamed Côtes-d'Armor in 1990:

Keywords:

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

Côtes-du-Nord, cigar, salesman, stripes, pink, occupant, red, green

Sources:

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

[gbr1] "Europe invaded by little men, article by Gray Barker, in his flying saucers magazine The Saucerian, Gray Barker editor, USA, Vol. 3, No 1, page 17, January 1955.
[gep1] "Fichier de Recensement Pasqualini, list, in the ufology bulletin GEPO Informations, ufology group GEPO, France, #20, May / August 1980.
[nip1] List on The NICAP Website, USA, found in 2014, at http://www.nicap.org/reports/1954_ufocat.htm
[ubk1] Online database UFO-Datenbank, Germany, found in 2016, at ufodatenbank.de

Document history:

Version:	Created/Changed by:	Date:	Change Description:
1.0	Patrick Gross	December 19, 2016	First published.
1.1	Patrick Gross	January 21, 2017	Addition [nip1].
1.2	Patrick Gross	April 27, 2022	Addition [gep1].

This page was last updated on April 27, 2022.