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October 28, 1954, La Teste-de-Buch, Gironde:

Reference for this case: 28-Oct-54-La-Teste-de-Buch.
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Summary:

In a general catalog of sighting reports of the Gironde written by the Bordeaux section of the C.F.R.U., published in the ufology magazine Ouranos in the fourth quarter of 1973, it is said that according to the Sud-Ouest newspaper for November 3, 1954, the following observation occurred:

On October 28, 1954, at 11:35 p.m. in La Teste, a Mr. D., hairdresser, reportedly saw for 4 to 5 seconds a "green colored, phosphorescent craft, seeming to rotate on itself while oscillating slightly".

Reports:

[Ref. ous1:] "OURANOS" UFOLOGY MAGAZINE:

October 28, 1954 11:35 p.m. La Teste VA V4

Witness: Mr D., hairdresser. Green colored, phosphorescent craft, seeming to rotate on itself while oscillating slightly. Duration 4 to 5 seconds.

S. O. November 3, 54

[Ref. ufa1:] UFOLOGY BULLETIN "UFOLOGIA":

OCTOBER 28, 1954 11:34 p.m. La Teste BA/V 4

Witness: Mr. P., hairdresser, green and phosphorescent machine seeming to spin on itself while oscillating slightly. Duration: 4 to 5 sec.

(S.O. November 03, 1954)

Note: "BA" stands for "Low Altitude"; "V 4" means "spacecraft of unknown origin."

[Ref. ubk1:] "UFO-DATENBANK":

Case Nr.	New case Nr.	Investigator	Date of observation	Zip	Place of observation	Country of observation	Hour of observation	Classification	Comments	Identification
19541028			28.10.1954		La Teste	France	11:35 p.m.

Explanations:

The description is reminiscent of a meteor rather than a "craft". But there is no trail mentioned, and the data is very poor, which leaves me in total uncertainty.

Keywords:

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

La Teste-de-Buch, La Teste, Gironde, night, hairdresser, single, anonymous, brief, craft, green, phosphorescent, rotation, oscillations

Sources:

[----] indicates sources that are not yet available to me.

[----] Article in the regional newspaper Sud Ouest, Bordeaux, France, November 3, 1954.
[ous1] "Catalogue général des observations de la Gironde - Résumé des Archives et dossiers de la section de Bordeaux du C.F.R.U.", catalogue in the ufology magazine Ouranos, France, Nouvelle Série #9, page 22, 4^th quarter 1973.
[ufa1] "Catalogue général des observations de la Gironde (I)", catalogue in the ufology bulletin Ufologia, ufology group C.F.R.U., France, #1, page 10, November / December 1975.
[ubk1] Online database UFO-Datenbank, Germany, found in 2016, at ufodatenbank.de

Document history:

Version:	Created/Changed by:	Date:	Change Description:
1.0	Patrick Gross	December 25, 2018	First published.
1.1	Patrick Gross	February 8, 2021	Addition [ubk1].
1.2	Patrick Gross	June 11, 2022	Addition [ufa1].

This page was last updated on June 11, 2022.