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Reference for this case: Beg-Feb-54-Soirans.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
The regional newspaper La Bourgogne Républicaine, of Dijon, on page 4 for February 11, 1954, published the following information coming from their particular correspondent in Soirans and headlined "It was not a flying saucer but a weather balloon!"
The article said that while hunting in the forest, Mr. Eugène Bonnaire, from Soirans, was intrigued by a mysterious object located at the top of an oak tree:
"Climbing up the tree to unhook this mysterious craft, after finding by the police... it was a "Modulator 32 944 US" weather balloon."
"It wasn't a flying saucer, as one might have thought!"
[Ref. lbr1:] NEWSPAPER "LA BOURGOGNE REPUBLICAINE":
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Soirans (from our part. corresp.). -- Hunting in the forest, Mr. Eugène Bonnaire, from Soirans, near Auxonne (Côte-d'Or) was intrigued by a mysterious object located at the top of an oak tree.
Climbing up the tree to unhook this mysterious craft, after finding by the police... it was a "Modulator 32 944 US" weather balloon.
It wasn't a flying saucer, as one might have thought!
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Negative case, fallen weather ballon.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Soirans, Côte-d'Or, Eugène Bonnaire, gendarme, tree, craft, device, sounding balloon, weather balloon, negative case, crash
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