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Reference for this case: Mid-Oct-54-Maurs.
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The newspaper L'Auvergnat de Paris reported on page 3 for October 23, 1954, that in Maurs, right at sunrise, the whole town was in turmoil, gathering on the square La Grande-Fontaine to look at a "mysterious, very shiny, oval-shaped craft that moved slowly, launching a thousand reflections of changing colors."
Telescopes were used, the most frequented of which was a navy telescope mounted on a tripod where, many curious people took a look.
At the daily siren call announcing noon, people had dispersed "more and more skeptical, thinking that, perhaps, Maurs-la-Jolie also had its flying saucer", the newspaper concluding that it was probably a weather balloon.
[Ref. aup1:] NEWSPAPER "L'AUVERGNAT DE PARIS":
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MAURS. -- A craft in our sky:
From sunrise on, our whole locality was in turmoil and everyone gathered on the Place de la Grande-Fontaine to witness the evolutions of a mysterious, very shiny, oval-shaped craft that was moving slowly while launching a thousand reflections of changing colors.
The telescopes made their appearance: the most frequented was a navy telescope, mounted on a tripod where, in turn, many curious people took their turn. Finally, at the daily siren call announcing noon, everyone dispersed more and more skeptical, thinking that, perhaps, Maurs-la-Jolie also had its flying saucer.
It was probably a weather balloon.
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As the [aup1] suggested, it was likely a balloon:
One or more stratospheric balloons for studying cosmic rays released in Milan, Italy, as a Padua University project, wandered over France on October 14, 15 and 16, 1954, and had been photographed from the Haute-Provence observatory:
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(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Maurs, Cantal, multiple, duration, telescope, craft, shining, reflection, colors, telescopes, balloon, weather balloon
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