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Reference for this case: Beg-Nov-54-Saint-Macaire-en-Mauges.
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The regional newspaper Ouest France for November 8, 1954, reported that in Saint-Macaire-en-Mauge, "the other morning", Mr. Gabriel Tricoire, tailor rue de la Delliée, saw at 6:15 a disc leaving behind a luminous trail, of orange color, violently illuminating the ground.
The newspaper added: "The machine flew at low altitude, without noise. Mr Tricoire's son, who went to the church to attend the mass, was witness of the same phenomenon and came back home, very proud of having seen a saucer. The dad had only the confirmation of what he had seen himself."
[Ref. ofe1:] NEWSPAPER "OUEST-FRANCE":
In Saint-Macaire-in-Mauge, the other morning, Mr Gabriel Tricoire, tailor in the Delliée street, saw at 6:15, a disc leaving behind itslef a luminous trail, of orange color, violently illuminating the ground.
The machine flew at low altitude, without noise. Mr Tricoire's son, who went to the church to attend the mass, was witness of the same phenomenon and came back home, very proud of having seen a saucer. The dad had only the confirmation of what he had seen himself.
Probable meteor, possibly the November 4, 1954 meteor.
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Saint-Macaire-en-Mauges, Maine-et-Loire, Gabriel Tricoire, disc, trail, luminous, orange, low, silent
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