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Reference for this case: Beg-Oct-54-Blaye.
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The regional newspaper Le Journal de Biarritz et de la Côte Basque for October 8, 1954, reported, among other sightings, that Mr. Jean Dubreuilh, a bank employee in Blaye, who was in the company of his wife, saw in the sky, just above the train station, a luminous banana giving off an orange glow.
In a general catalog of sighting reports of the Gironde written by the Bordeaux section of the C.F.R.U., published in the ufology magazine Ouranos in the fourth quarter of 1973, it is said that according to the Sud-Ouest newspaper for October 8, 1954, the following observation occurred:
Before October 8, 1954, therefore, at Blaye, Mr. and Mrs. Dubreuilh reportedly saw seen a kind of orange-colored flying "banana", just above the railway station; which disappeared at high speed towards Lamarque in the Southwest while illuminating the horizon of a bright red color similar to a sunset.
[Ref. jbz1:] NEWSPAPER "LE JOURNAL DE BIARRITZ":
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We announced yesterday the discovery in ESCOUT near Oloron, of a mysterious balloon attached to a kind of kite.
This balloon was transported from the Oloron gendarmerie to the gendarmerie company in Pau. The latter passed it on to the military subdivision.
According to initial observations, it seems to be a device used by air bases for radar detection exercises.
FROM MELON TO BANANA
Mrs. Monnier, living in the Château de Biron, near Monpazier (Dordogne), observed an orange ball the size of a small melon from which emerged a sort of cigar.
Mr. Jean Dubreuilh, a bank employee in Blaye, who was in the company of his wife, saw in the sky, just above the train station, a luminous banana giving off an orange glow.
Two residents of Cissac, Miss Ducasse and Mr. Couty, saw a flying saucer.
A SUPPOSED MARTIAN IN HAUTE-MARNE
Chaumont. -- Mr. André Narcy, a roadmender in Mertrud (Haute-Marne) claims to have seen, in the middle of a field, a strange machine, a kind of spherical saucer ten meters in diameter, into which a little man about 1.20 m tall rushed.
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[Ref. ous1:] UFOLOGY MAGAZINE "OURANOS":
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Before October 8, 1954 Blaye BA V4
Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Dubreuilh. Kind of orange color flying "banana", just above the railway station. Disappeared at high speed towards Lamarque (S.W.) illuminating the horizon with a bright red color similar to a sunset.
S.O. for Oct. 8, 54
[Ref. ufa1:] UFOLOGY BULLETIN "UFOLOGIA":
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BEFORE 08 OCTOBER 1954 Blaye BA/V 4
Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. DUBREUILH. Kind of a flying, orange "banana" just above the railway station; Disappeared at high speed towards LAMARQUE (SW) illuminating the horizon with a red color.
(S.O. October 08, 1954)
Note: "BA" stands for "Low Altitude"; "V 4" stands for "spacecraft of unknown origin".
[Ref. gep1:] UFOLOGY GROUP "GEPO":
| 10/7/54 | 08:30 p.m. | Blaye-station --> SW | 307C2 |
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The information is quite poor, the apparent srangeness very weak. It could have been a meteor, for example, or a red crescent Moon.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Blaye, Gironde, Dubreuilh, couple, banana, flying, orange, fast, direction, horizon, red
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| Version: | Created/Changed by: | Date: | Change Description: |
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| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | December 25, 2018 | First published. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | April 1, 2022 | Addition [gep1]. |
| 1.2 | Patrick Gross | May 24, 2022 | Addition [ufa1]. |
| 1.3 | Patrick Gross | September 3, 2025 | Addition [jbz1]. In the Summary, addition of the information from [jbz1]. |
