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The 1954 French flap:

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September 29, 1954, Ballon, Sarthe:

Reference for this case: 29-Sep-54-Ballon.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Summary:

In the late 1950s, a French archivist, Guy Quincy, compiled a catalog of sightings of unidentified flying objects. He noted there, without further details or source, that on September 29, 1954, at 3:30 a.m., a dozen huge luminous circles had been observed in Ballon in the Sarthe.

Reports:

[Ref. gqy1:] GUY QUINCY:

Explanations:

Insufficient information.

There is the possibility of military maneuvers, for example, like those of NATO's "Operation Shooting Star" in late September 1954.

Keywords:

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

Ballon, Sarthe, night, ten, circles, luminous, huge

Sources:

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

• [gqy1] "Observations 1954", monograph by Guy Quincy, France - Algeria, private publication, page 8, the 1950's.

Document history:

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