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Reference for this case: 6-Oct-54-Le Mans.
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At the end of the 1950s, a French archivist, Guy Quincy, interested in the question of the "mysterious celestial objects", compiled a catalog of observations, in which he noted, without giving either a source or details, an observation of a "cloud cigar" on October 6, 1954, at 05:45 p.m. in Le Mans in the Sarthe department.
[Ref. gqy1:] GUY QUINCY:
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1954 OBSERVATIONS
October 6
[... Other cases...]
05:45 p.m.: Le Mans (Sarthe): cloud cigar
[... Other cases...]
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Totally insufficient information.
I found no other reference to such a sighting at that date and hour in or near Le Mans.
"Cloud cigar" was an expression coined by the pionneering ufologist Aimé Michel in the 1950's; he thought that there were sightings of a similar nature, of a big vertical or horiontal cigar-shaped craft surrounded by fog, supposed to be some kind of mothership.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Le Mans, Sarthe, cigar, cloud, day
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