The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this website is here.
October 6, 1954, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime:
Reference for this case: 6-Oct-54-La-Rochelle.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
In the 2000s, American ufologist Larry Hatch noted in a synthetic manner in his catalog of UFO sightings that on October 6, 1954, at 22:30 in France in La Rochelle, a flying saucer measuring 5 meters by 3 meters had hovered above the ground and then flown away, and that oily traces had been found in the grass, according to Jacques Vallée in "Challenge to Science," page 65.
In the 2010s, a database of German-speaking UFO sightings Web database indicated twice that there was a sighting of the "Close Encounter of the 2nd Kind" in La Rochelle, on the evening of October 6, 1954.
[Ref. lhh1:] LARRY HATCH - "*U* COMPUTER DATABASE":
3994: 1954/10/06 22:30 2 1:08:00 W 46:10:00 N 3333 WEU FRN CHM 7:9
La ROCHELLE,FR:5Mx3M SCR HOVERS 1M OVER GND:FLIES OFF:OILY MARKS LEFT IN GRASS
Ref# 3 VALLEE:UFO ENIGMA: Challenge/Science Page No. 65 : PASTURE
[Ref. ubk1:] "UFO-DATENBANK":
This database recorded this case twice:
| Case Nr. | New case Nr. | Investigator | Date of observation | Zip | Place of observation | Country of observation | Hour of observation | Classification | Comments | Identification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19541006 | 06.10.1954 | La Rochelle | France | Evening | CE II | |||||
| 19541006 | 06.10.1954 | La Rochelle | France |
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[ubk1] does not give precise information; the case could be another poorly dated and loosely located case.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime
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| Version: | Created/Changed by: | Date: | Change Description: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | February 6, 2021 | First published, [ubk1]. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | May 14, 2026 | Addition [lhh1]. In the Summary, addition of the information from [lhh1]. |
