The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this website is here.
Reference for this case: Beg-Nov-54-Coutance.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
In pages devoted to the "flying saucers", Radar magazine of October 1954 published a photo of a Mr. Deserre, from Coutance, in the Manche department, explaining that he was still shaking: "This ball of fire, he said, streaked the sky with a luminous and flexible trail like that of a molten cigar."
In the 1950s, a French archivist interested in the "flying saucers", Guy Quincy, typed a very brief catalog of observations, without citing his sources; he indicated there a sighting of the beginning of November 1954 at an unknown hour in Coutance in the Manche department, France, noting that it was an intense luminous object which might have been a meteor.
[Ref. rdr1:] "RADAR" MAGAZINE:
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Mr. Deserre (right.), of Coutance (Manche) is still trembling. "This fireball, he says, crossed the sky of a luminous and flexible trail like that of a melting cigar."
[Ref. gqy1:] GUY QUINCY:
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Beginning of November [1954]
?: Coutances (Manche): intense lumin. obj. (meteor?)
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Probable meteor.
The date "beginning of November" given by [gqy1] is likely an approximation.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Coutance, Manche, object, luminous, intense, meteor, Deserre, frightened, fireball, trail, cigar, fusion
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| Version: | Created/Changed by: | Date: | Change Description: |
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| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | November 9, 2021 | First published. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | May 27, 2022 | Addition [rdr1]. In the Summary, addition of the information from [rdr1]. |
