SEPTEMBER 17, 1954, OMONT, ARDENNES, FRANCE, PIERRE DELVENNE:
Brief summary of the event and follow-up:
One Pierre Delvenne of Omont had told friends that he saw a metallic spinning top of 4 meters diameter and 2,5 meters in height come down from the clouds, from which a being with a hairy face came out and went to four legs, then returned in the object which flew away.
A journalist at the time had realized that Mr. Delvenne was a prankster who had invented the story.
According these two French ufologists, a person named Pierre Delvenne who was a happy chap invented a flying saucer sighting of September 17, 1954, in Olmont.
They write: "We could have never known when we tried to obtain details on this kind of observations, what was prompting our iterlocutors' giggles..."
French ufologist and author Jean Sider learned in an article from the newspaper L'Ardennais of september 23, 1954, page 2, that Mr. Devenne, the prankster, told stupidities to the newspaperman who came to interview him.
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Location. Omont France
Date: September 17 1954
Time: 0830A
M Delvenne told 2 friends that he saw a metallic top 4 meters in diameter and 2.5 meters high descend from the clouds; a being emerged who had a hairy face and walked on all fours. It quickly re-entered the object and flew away.
Humcat 1954-49
Source: Humcat quoting Newspaper source
Type: B
The website indicates that on 17 September 1954 at 08:30 in Omont, France, "Story was told only as a joke. Explanation: Hoax."
And: "Close encounter with a an unidentified craft and its occupants. One metallic top-shaped object was observed by one male witness in an orchard (Delvenne)."
And: "M Delvenne told 2 friends that he saw a metallic top 4 meters in diameter and 2.5 meters high descend from the clouds; a being emerged who had a hairy face and walked on all fours. It quickly re-entered the object and flew away."
The sources are indicated as Webb, David, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports; Hatch, Larry, *U* computer database, Author, Redwood City, 2002; Rosales, Albert, Humanoid Sighting Reports Database; Poher, Claude, Etudes Statistiques Portant sur 1000 Temoignag, Author, undated.
Town councillor Pierre Delveen saw a hairy being emerge from a spherical object.
Alain Gamard citing Kolisimo 1970, p.353.
Points to consider:
There we have a case of "hairy alien", of those supposed to demonstrate certain "paranormal" theories on UFOs seen as a "festival of absurdities", which this time again is only a quite ordinary hoax.
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September 30, 2006
Patrick Gross
Patrick Gross
Missing the article in the regional newspaper L'Ardennais, page 2, for September 23, 1954.
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Prank.
Sources references:
* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.
[---] ? Article in the regional newspaper L'Ardennais, page 2, September 23, 1954.
[---] ? "Des Ombres sur les Etoiles", book by Peter Kolosimo, Albin Michel éditeur, France, 1970.
[---] ? "Not of This World", book by Peter Kolosimo, Souvenir Press Limited publishers, page 353, 1970.
[bb1] * "La Grande Peur Martienne", book by Gérard Barthel and Jacques Brucker, Nouvelles Editions Rationalistes publisher, Paris, pp. 76-77, 1979.
[js1] * "Le Dossier 1954 et l'imposture rationaliste", book by Jean Sider, Ramuel publisher, page 64, 1997.
[ar1] * "1954 Humanoid Sightings Catalog", compiled by Alberto Rosales, circa 2004, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1954.shtml.
[ud1] * "17 Sep 1954 - Omont, France", web page by the website UFOdna, circa 2008, at www.ufodna.com/uf07/uf6/076973.htm
[pr1] * "Incat 1954 - International Catalogue of Entity Reports", compiled by Peter Rogerson, U-K., circa 2012, at intcat.blogspot.fr/search/label/1954
