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1954, Eu, Seine-Maritime:

Reference number for this case: 54-Eu. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Summary:

In 2003 on a ufology discussion board of the web, "Uncle Dom", i.e. the veteran and "skeptical" ufologist Dominique Caudron, told that at the time of the 1954 saucer flap, there was the case "of a pathetic shaky light observed by a girl who lived above a movie theater."

He says that this was reported like this by the small local newspaper, but the local issue of the "Courier Picard" made of it an a little richer report already. Mentioned in another regional newspaper, it was still better, and it then was reported in the "Parisien Libéré."

He says that "in the end," in Jacques Vallée's catalogue" - where actually this case does not exist - "it becomes two squadrons of flying saucers which echanged signals. Two more steps and you would get the War of the Worlds:-)".

Reports:

[Ref. dc1:] DOMINIQUE CAUDRON:

Groupes de discussion : "francom.ovni"
From: "Oncle Dom"
Date : Thu, 3 Jul 2003 06:49:56

During the flap of 1954, one had the case in Eu of a pathetic shaky light
observed by a young girl who was residing above a movie theater.
Reported by the small local newspaper, that's how it is. Reported
by the loacal edition of "le Courrier picard", it is lready a bit richer.
Republished by another local newspaper, it's even better. And then you
come to the "Parisien libéré".
In the end, in the catalogue by Jacques Vallée, you get two squadrons
of flying saucers that exchange signals.
Two more steps and it's the war or the worlds :-)
I'd like to have seen that reproduced in a comic strip or as cover
in "radar"

When you show the witness the comic strip where his case is, that's hilarious ;-)
--
Oncle Dom

Note:

Although Dominique Caudron [dc1] says this case appears in Jacques Vallée's catalogue as "two squadrons of flying saucers that exchange signals", there is no French 1954 case that matches this in Vallée's catalogue as far as I know.

Explanations:

Not looked for yet.

Keywords:

(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)

Eu, Seine-Maritime, movie theater, light

Sources:

[---] indicates sources which I have not yet checked.

[---] Article in the regional newspaper Le Courrier Picard, France.
[---] Article in the national newspaper Le Parisien Libéré, France.
[dc1] Posted by ufologist Dominique Caudron, France, on the Internet forum francom.ovni, July 3, 2003.

Document history:

Version:	Created/Changed by:	Date:	Change Description:
0.1	Patrick Gross	January 16, 2006	First published.
1.0	Patrick Gross	March 1, 2010	Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version.
1.1	Patrick Gross	December 1, 2016	Addition of the Summary.

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