ALSACAT-1954-10-14-LATETEDESFAUX-1
The regional newspaper Le Nouveau Rhin Français for October 16, 1954, reported several observations of October 14, 1954, including one "above the Tête des Faux".
| Date: | October 14, 1954 |
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| Time: | |
| Duration: | ? |
| First known report date: | October 16, 1954 |
| Reporting delay: | 2 days. |
| Department: | Haut-Rhin |
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| City: | Le Bonhomme? |
| Place: | UFO above mountain top "La Tête des Faux". |
| Latitude: | 48.172 |
| Longitude: | 7.112 |
| Uncertainty radius: | 15 km |
| Number of alleged witnesses: | ? |
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| Number of known witnesses: | ? |
| Number of named witnesses: | 0 |
| Witness(es) ages: | ? |
| Witness(es) types: | ? |
| Reporting channel: | Regional Press. |
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| Type of location: | UFO above a mountain top of the Vosges mountains. |
| Visibility conditions: | ? |
| UFO observed: | Yes |
| UFO arrival observed: | ? |
| UFO departure observed: | ? |
| Entities: | No |
| Photographs: | No. |
| Sketch(s) by witness(es): | No. |
| Sketch(es) approved by witness(es): | No. |
| Witness(es) feelings: | ? |
| Witnesses interpretation: | ? |
| Hynek: | DD or NL |
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| ALSACAT: | Possibly the meteor of 06:15 p.m., totally insufficient information. |
[Ref. nrf1:] NEWSPAPER "LE NOUVEAU RHIN FRANCAIS":
Lapoutroie. -- Thursday, October 14, shortly after noon, Mr. G. G. and Miss M. H., living in the village, saw two vehicles whose shape reminded a cigar or a "boat." Both cigars sailed together at great heights. They disappeared very suddenly.
Similar phenomena have been seen above the Tête des Faux and the Bonhomme, near Rossberg (between Le Bonhomme and the Bagenelles Pass).
[Ref. cvn1:] CHRISTIAN VALENTIN:
Christian Valentin indicated that on October 14, 1954, a day with an intense activity on the southern half of Alsace, a sighting similar to that in Lapoutroie on the same day occurred at la Tete des Faux.
[Ref. cvn2:] CHRISTIAN VALENTIN:
Former journalist Christian Valentin published in 2012 a very interesting book telling the story of UFO sightings, flying saucers sightings, in Alsace, from the beginning to 1980.
In this book, he reports that there were sightings on October 14, 1954, including those told in "Le Nouveau Rhin Français for Saturday, October 16, 1954:
Lapoutroie: Thursday, October 14, shortly after noon, Mr. G. G. and Miss M. H., living in the village, saw two vehicles whose shape reminded a cigar or a "boat." Both cigars sailed together at great heights. They disappeared very suddenly.
Similar phenomena have been seen above the Tête des Faux and the Bonhomme, near Rossberg (between Le Bonhomme and the Bagenelles Pass).
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Of course there is almost no information about the sighting, so no explanation would be better than another.
It is true that the newspaper said it was "similar" to another observation; but it does not help as the description of this other observation was put into doubt.
It was not specified what was "similar", anyway: the hour, the description...?
"Above the Tête des Faux" is just an indication of the direction in which the alleged UFO was visually located. But we do not know where the witness or witnesses were, so that no actual position or direction can be inferred.
Possibly the meteor of 06:15 p.m., totally insufficient information.
* = Source is available to me.
? = Source I am told about but could not get so far. Help needed.
| Main author: | Patrick Gross |
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| Contributors: | None |
| Reviewers: | None |
| Editeur: | Patrick Gross |
| Version: | Create/changed by: | Date: | Description: |
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| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | May 1, 2005 | First published in the France 1954 catalogue. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | April 8, 2009 | Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. |
| 3.0 | Patrick Gross | April 25, 2014 | Additions [nrf1], [cvn2]. |
| 3.0 | Patrick Gross | April 25, 2014 | First published in the ALSACAT catalogue. |
