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Reference for this case: 7-Jan-54-Gournay-en-Bray.
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On January 7, 1954, at 4:27 a.m., a big meteor passed in the sky, reported mainly above the Nord and the Seine-Maritime department; it finally exploded near Dieppe.
Archivist Guy Quincy, in the 1950s, noted that there was among the sightings of what he thought might be a meteor, perhaps, a sighting of something luminous in "Gournay" in the North of the Seine-Maritime department, at 4:28 a.m.
[Ref. gqy1:] GUY QUINCY:
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January 7 [1954]
04:26 a.m.: Arras (Pas-de-Calais): luminous disc (meteor?)
04:27 a.m.: Orchies (P.-de-C.): luminous d. (id?)
04:28 a.m.: Fécamp,Gournay,Nord S. Mme.: intense light
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The January 7, 1954, meteor.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Gournay-en-Bray, Seine-Maritime, luminous
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