The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this website is here.
Reference for this case: end-Oct-54-Plougasnou.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
The regional newspaper Ouest France, of Rennes, reported from Morlaix, on page 5 on October 29, 1954, that a 12-year-old girl, Anne Jégou, from Ploueznoch, boarding at a school in Plougasnou, claimed to have seen, while she was returning from school to take the Morlaix coach, an ovoid-shaped craft, about 1 meter long, cream-white in color, resting on the road.
She had come close to a meter and immediately felt like an electric shock that paralyzed her for a few seconds.
Then the "flying egg" moved slowly away, rising suddenly.
The regional newspaper La Liberté du Morbihan on page 10 October 30, 1954, reported the same thing adding that it occurred at 7 am and that the object did not emit any noise.
[Ref. ouf1:] "OUEST-FRANCE" NEWSPAPER:
Morlaix, 28. -- (From our newsroom). A 12-year-old young girl, Anne Jégou, of Ploueznoch, in pension in a school of Plougasnou, claims to have seen, whereas she returned from the school to take the bus to Morlaix, a machine of ovoid shape and a length of 1 meter approximately, of cream-white color, resting on the road. She approached it at one meter and felt at once a sort of electric shock; which paralyzed her during a few seconds. Then the "flying egg" moved away gently while suddenly taking altitude.
[Ref. llm1:] JOURNAL "LA LIBERTE DU MORBIHAN":
MORLAIX. A 12-year-old young girl, Anne Jegou, of Plougasnou (Finistère) claims that yesterday morning at 7 o'clock she has seen, on the road in front of the school where she is a boarder, in Plougasnou, a machine of ovoid shape, of one meter length, of white color, which did not emit any noise.
She came to one meter close to the object, she then felt like an electric shock and remained paralyzed during a few seconds. The flying machine then moved away gently, gradually taking altitude.
(Plougasnou is 13 kilometers north of Morlaix.)
[Ref. jsr1:] JEAN SIDER:
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October 26 or 27, time not specified, between Plouezoch and Plougasnou, the Finistère
A 12-year-old girl, Anne Jegou, from Plouezoch, boarding at a school in Plougasnou, claimed to have seen an ovoid craft, about one meter long, and creamy-white in color, resting on the road to Morlaix.
She approached within one meter, and immediately felt like an electric shock, which paralyzed her for a few seconds.
The egg then slowly moved away, and suddenly gained altitude.
source:
Ouest-France, Rennes, 10/27/54. p.5
[Ref. jsr2:] JEAN SIDER:
Jean Sider wrote that the Ouest France newspaper of October 27, 1954, reported on page 5, that a young girl of 12, Anne Jegou of Plouezech who was in pension in a school of Plougasnou said she saw a craft of one meter long approximately, of cream-white color, posed on the road to Morlaix. She got lose within 1 meter of the object and felt like an electric shock; which left her paralyzed for a few seconds. Then the flying egg moved away gently while suddenly taking altitude.
Jean Sider notes the case happened on October 26 or 27 at an unknown time.
[Ref. lhh1:] LARRY HATCH - "*U* COMPUTER DATABASE":
4288: 1954/10/27 00:00 2 3:47:20 W 48:40:00 N 3321 WEU FRN FNS 8:5
D46 NE/PLOUEZOCH,FR:GIRL/12 NEARS 1M OVOID:ELE.SHOCKS+TEMP.PARALYSIS:/LDLN#325
Ref#217 Jean SIDER: Le DOSSIER 1954 (2 vol.) Page No. 122 : ROAD+RAILS
[Ref. goe1:] GODELIEVE VAN OVERMEIRE:
The Belgian ufologist indicates that in 1954, on October 26 or 27, in France, in Plouezoch (Finistère) "the 26th or 27th of October, a 12-year-old girl, Anne Jégou of Plouezoch (Finistère) who went to the school of Plougasnou, saw an ovoid machine approximately one meter long of cream-colored white color. She approached within one meter and at once felt like an electric shock which paralyzed her during a few seconds. Then the flying egg rose gently in the air to suddenly take altitude little afterwards."
The source is indicated as "Jean SIDER : 'Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués', éd. RAMUEL 1999, p 140".
[Ref. uda1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:
The website indicates that on 27 October 1954 in D46, northeast of Plouezoch, France, "12-yr-old girl approaches 1m ovoid on road. Receives electric shocks and is temporarily paralyzed."
And: "A 12-year-old girl approached a one-meter long ovoid object on the road northeast of Plouezoch, Finistere, France. She received electric shocks and was temporarily paralyzed."
And: "An object was observed. Physiological effects were noted. One ovoid object, about 5 feet across, was observed by one female 12-year-old witness on a road for two minutes."
The source is indicated as "Hatch, Larry, *U* computer database, Author, Redwood City, 2002."
[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:
Luc Chastan indicates that in the Finistère in Plougasnou on October 28, 1954 at 07:00 hours, "a 12 year old girl, claims to have seen, whereas she came back from school to take the bus of Morlaix, a craft of ovoid form of a length of 1 meter approximately, white-cream color, resting on the road. She is approximately at one meter and felt at once like an electric shock which paralyzed her during a few seconds. Then the 'flying egg' moved away gently while taking altitude suddenly."
The source is noted as "Les OVNI vus de près by Gross Patrick ** http://ufologie.net".
[Ref. nip1:] "THE NICAP WEBSITE":
*Oct. 27, 1954 - A 12-year-old girl approached a one-meter long ovoid object on the road northeast of Plouezoch, Finistere, France. She received electric shocks and was temporarily paralyzed. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4074, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 122).
[Ref. ubk1:] "UFO-DATENBANK":
| Case Nr. | New case Nr. | Investigator | Date of observation | Zip | Place of observation | Country of observation | Hour of observation | Classification | Comments | Identification |
| 19540000 | 00.00.1954 | Plouquenast [sic] | France | CE I |
Note: this database writes "Plouquenast". Plouguenast exists, it is located in the Côtes-d'Armor; but I think, because this database makes many errors, that it was indeed Plougasnou, especially since the case is noted as CE1 and that I never found anything on an observation at Plouguenast in 1954.
[Ref. voi1:] "ARCHIVES VIGIE OVNI 29":
Plougasnou ( 29 630 ), 26 October 1954 ...
Testimony nr. FR 29 630 1954 10 26 .. ..
Available documents:
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Ouest France for October 29 does not give a date, La Liberté du Morbihan for October 30 said: "yesterday morning"; I take it that the date was probably October 28th.
If the story is truthfully reported by the Press and if the girl did not invent it, this was an extraterrestrial craft.
Those who advocate this this is "impossible", may argue that the girl lied, or gave a confused report, and/or that the Press distorted what was a meteor arriving from behind the horizon.
I do have a meteor reported on October 28, 1954, but it was at 9 p.m., not 7 a.m. But the date for this sighting is not certain.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Plougasnou, Finistère, girl, young, child, Anne Jégou, Anne Jegou, road, landed, landing, object, craft, white, whitish, close, electric, shock, effect, paralyzed, duration, altitude, egg, egg-shaped, ovoid
[----] indicates sources that are not yet available to me.
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| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | February 23, 2010 | Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Additions [lcn1], [uda1]. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | October 19, 2014 | Addition [nip1]. |
| 1.2 | Patrick Gross | February 7, 2017 | Addition [voi1]. |
| 1.3 | Patrick Gross | December 19, 2018 | Additions [lhh1], Summary. Explanations changed, were "Not looked for yet." |
| 1.4 | Patrick Gross | January 22, 2020 | Addition [ubk1]. |
| 1.5 | Patrick Gross | June 21, 2022 | Addition [jsr1]. |
