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Reference for this case: Mid-Sep-54-Saint-Fargeau.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
The youth magazine Benjamin of October 31, 1954, summarized several dozen sightings in France in 1954. One of the cases was reported from Saint-Fargeau: a "ball of fire" was seen by Mr. Poulard and his wife. Mr. Poulard was described as working at the National Institute of Patents and Inventions.
Below: Famous actress Michèle Morgan and witness Mrs Poulard, together on picture in a newspaper article of that time on the 1954 flying saucers.
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[Ref. ben1:] "BENJAMIN" MAGAZINE:
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- EPINAL. - A young butcher boy said he saw a spherical craft of ochre color, encircled by a darker ring.
- LA ROCHELLE. - While driving his car, Mr. Picaud, brewery director, saw a disc moving at low altitude on the horizon.
- LANGEAC (Haute-Loire). - A white glow crossed the sky and was seen by several residents.
- LILLE. - On September 29, a resident of Wimereux, Mr. Raoul Baptiste, 72, a contractor, stated he had seen a saucer at low altitude, heading north.
- LE MAS-NEUF (Lozère). - On September 18, Mr. Jean Madrigal saw a bright object fall from the sky, performing frightening zigzags.
- LE PUY. - On September 24, Mrs. Chaunard saw a red flying cigar, motionless for a quarter of an hour, then it suddenly disappeared. On the 26th, Mr. Mallet, a hotel owner, also spotted one.
- LOUDES (Haute-Loire). - On September 22, a strange craft, described differently by the witnesses, passed through the sky.
- LODEVE (Hérault). - Mr. Hugounenq, an accountant, his wife, and a retired nurse, Miss Marguerite Phallip, saw a flying red fireball.
- NANCY. - On September 24, several DOZENS of workers from Sidelor, especially those living in Fontaine-les-Baroches (Meurthe-et-Moselle), saw six flying cigars.
- ORIGNY (Aisne). - The director of a basketry factory, Mr. Chovel, his wife, and Mr. Sdraulig, his father-in-law, saw at night an orange craft that gradually turned red before disappearing at lightning speed.
- METZ. - On September 22, the rural policeman of Oberdorf informed the gendarmerie that he had seen a flaming craft traveling in zigzags at high speed.
- ORGENOY (Seine-et-Marne). - Mr. Raymond Ravot, butcher-delicatessen owner from Saint-Fargeau, and his daughter Odette noticed a ball of fire moving slowly toward Versailles. Mr. Ravot alerted the town crier of Ponthierry and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Georges Binet. Together, they saw the craft again.
- SAINT-ETIENNE. - Several residents of Paray-le-Monial noticed on September 21 a large pinkish tube.
- SAINT-FARGEAU. - A ball of fire was seen by Mr. Poulard and his wife. Mr. Poulard works at the National Institute of Patents and Inventions. Mrs. Gaumundi, from Paris, traveling in the same area, saw the same craft.
- TULLE (Corrèze). - Mr. Besse, an engineer with the French Electricity Board, claimed to have seen a saucer turn pink, then green, then yellow.
- VICHY. - A flying cigar was reported by several people, notably by rugby players training at the Vichy stadium.
[Ref. gdn1:] GEORGES DUMOULIN:
[Documentary voice-over:] "In the autumn of 1954, a whole jumble of cigars, saucers, discs, bells, jellyfishes, tubes, paper cones of chestnuts, and little boxes of candies invaded the sky of our Christian West. Like [...] Madame Poulard at Saint Fargeau, [...]"
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Totally insufficient information, probable meteor.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Saint-Fargeau, Yonne, Poulard, ball, fire
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1.0 | Patrick Gross | August 28, 2025 | First published, [ben1], [gdn1]. |