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October 2, 1954, Blanche-Eglise, Moselle:

Reference for this case: 2-Oct-54-Blanche-Eglise.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Reports:

[Ref. lln1:] NEWSPAPER "LE LORRAIN":

Admired in various places, not without emotion

The ballet of the "Flying Saucers"
continues in the sky of Lorraine

In the Moselle, mysterious machines attracted the glances.

Last Friday, at about 11 p.m., several residents of Bassing, among whose MM. Romain and Renfort, saw, above the area of Vergaville and Bidestroff, a luminous object of 2 to 3 meters length, showinf the shape of an ellipse and which moved at very variable speeds. The witnesses heard a gentle humming of engine. Sometimes the alleged flying saucer slowed its travel down to the of being motionless, then it went up with a vertiginous pace. The same phenomenon was observed Saturday, between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., by Mr. Remy Rousselle, of Blanche-Eglise, and Mr. Baumann, of Bassing.

A large green disc

In its turn, the sky of the area of Dieuze saw a flying saucer evolving. It was Sunday evening. It was exactly 08:17 p.m. when Mr. Pierre Laplace, aged 19, electrician with the Kuhlmann Establishments, in Dieuze, and residing in Vergaville, saw in the sky a large luminous disc of green color, at the height of the wood of Brides, between the villages of Vergaville and Kerprich. The bulky point, he said, was at approximately 3000 meters. Mr. Laplace, having stopped, followed the evolutions of the machine. When he saw it for the first time, it was motionless. Suddenly, specifies the electrician, the machine launched sparkling lights of the color of ultraviolet rays; it then moved at a speed such as nowadays' jet airplanes, seeming, close to him, to hover.

The flying saucer, because that's what it is, said the observer, as well as the passers by that Mr. Laplace had stopped and who are positive, stopped at the height of the Paquis of Guéblin; it crossed the distance between Guéblin and Kerprich three times, always at a tremendous pace, but extraordinarily, always stopping in the same place.

Suddenly, the machine launched new gleams, seeming to locate the ground, and went down until approximately 600 meters from ground. Then, making a U turn, very slowly, it went down more and more and finally, seemed to land at the level of the Côte-des-Vignes, located at a little distance of Bedestroff. About thirty people, cyclists, pedestrians, motorists, followed, extremely interested, the evolutions of the saucer. Mr. Laplace and some other spectators having wanted to on motorbike to the spot of landing, the saucer took height again and disappeared behind a curtain of trees. It was 9 p.m. at this time. The inhabitants of the area who saw the saucer are M.M. Lucien Victorien, Primon, building contractor in Vergaville; Mr Kinowsky, workman in shoes, Claude Renfort of Bassing, as well as the manager of the Ecos of Vergaville and his family.

Amazingly, at 11:45 p.m., several unknown people stationing on the road as well as Mr. Domant, a garage workman residing in Guéblin, and Mr. Glicher, of the same village, looked with attention, but without daring to approach it, a disc of green color which was in the fields, at a small distance of the road. Let us finally report that Saturday, between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., Mr Rothfuss of Dieuze, had also seen, circulating in the airs, between the farm of Boule and Maizières-les-Vic, a luminous disc whose details correspond exactly to those given by Mr. Laplace.

[Ref. ler1:] NEWSPAPER "L'EST REPUBLICAIN":

Admired in various places not without emotion...

The ballet of the flying saucers continues in the Lorraine sky but the mysterious machines remain elusive

The "flying saucers" seem to engage in a ceaseless round in the eastern sky and elsewhere. Their passage is reported in a hundred places each day. We lack space here for us to echo all the news reaching us about it. Suffice to mention a few of the last and main stories related to this.

In Remiremont, Sunday at 11 am, a hundred people were able to see, from the enclosure of the Pomological fair of the Campus Martius, what is believed to be a flying saucer or a cigar or a disc, which let loose a trail of smoke in its wake, when rising or descending, turning around the sun. People skeptical of saucers stories told us to have observed the phenomenon very well.

The "saucer" remained ten minutes suspended in the atmosphere and disappeared. Two to three meters in length...

In the Moselle, mysterious machines attracted attention

Last Friday, around 23h, several residents of Bassing, including Mr. Romain and Mr. Renfort, saw, above the region between Vergaville and Bidestroff, a luminous object of 2 to 3 meters in length, having the shape of an ellipse and which moved at variable speeds. Witnesses heard a slight engine roar. Sometimes the alleged flying saucer slowed its course up to the point to rest, and then went back at breakneck speed.

The same phenomenon was observed on Saturday between 21h and 22h by Mr. Remy Rousselle, of Blanche-Eglise and Mr. Baumann of Bassing.

A large green disk

In turn, the sky of the region of Dieuze saw evolve a flying saucer.

It was Sunday night. It was exactly 8:17 p.m. when Mr. Pierre Laplace, aged 19, electrician at the Etablissements Kuhlmann in Dieuze and living in Vergaville, saw in the sky a large bright green disk, at the hieght of the wood of Brides, between the village of Vergaville and Kerprich. The large spot was, he said, at about 3,000 meters. Laplace stood, and followed the moves of the machine. When he saw it for the first time, it was motionless. Suddenly, says the electrician, the machine threw glittering lights of the color of ultraviolet rays, it then moved at a rate such that current jet planes appear motionless in comparison. The flying saucer, because this is what it was, said the witness, as well as passers by Mr. Laplace had stopped and who are formal, stopped at the height of the Paquis of Guéblin, it flew the distance between Guéblin and Kerprich three times, always at breakneck speed, but, extraordinary thing, it always stopped at the same place.

Suddenly the craft launched new gleams, seemingly locating the ground, and went down at about 600 meters of the ground, then making a semicircle, very slowly, it got more and more close to the ground and finally, seemed to land on the hill of the Vines, located not far from Bedestroff. Thirty people, cyclists, pedestrians, motorists followed, extremely interested, the changes in the saucer. Laplace and some other spectators having wanted to go on a motorcycle at the landing place, the saucer again took off and disappeared behind a curtain of trees.

It was 9 p.m. then.

The locals who saw the saucer are Mssrs Lucien Victorien and Primon, entrepreneurs in masonry in Vergaville, Kinowsky, shoemaker in Bataville, Claude Ronfort of Bassing and the manager of the Eco in Vergaville and his family.

Curiously, at 23:45, several unknown parked on the road, and Mr. Domant, mechanic in Guéblin and Mr. Gilcher, of the same village, watched attentively but without daring to approach it, a green disc which was in the fields, a short distance from the road.

Finally, let's note that on Saturday between 20 and 21 hours, Mr. Rothfuss, of Dieuze, had also seen circulate in the air between the farm of the Boule and Maizières-les-Vic, a luminous disc whose details are exactly those given by Laplace.

[Ref. aml1:] AIME MICHEL:

Aimé Michel indicates that on Saturday, October 2, 1954 in Blanche-Eglise, 5 kilometers in straight line from Dieuze, Mr. Rémy Rousselle, of Blanche-Eglise, described as occurring between 9 to 10 p.m. the same maneuvers as in Dieuze.

[Ref. gqy1:] GUY QUINCY:

Scan.

Saturday, October 2 [, 1954] (continued)

[... Other cases...]

09:00 p.m.: Bassing/Blanche-Eglise (Moselle): moves of luminos obj.

[... Other cases...]

[Ref. jve5:] JACQUES VALLEE:

198 -006.67530 48.49260 02 10 1954 21 00 160 BLANCHE-EGLISE F 0013 C** 168

[Ref. pis2:] "PHENOMENES INCONNUS" UFOLOGY BULLETIN:

In this ufology bulletin, Alain Barbe published a map with cases (but not all the 61 cases or more) for October 2, 1954, including that of Blanche-Eglise, which he, like Aimé Michel did, thooght to often be "aligned" beyond mere chance:

[Ref. fru1:] MICHEL FIGUET AND JEAN-LOUIS RUCHON:

The two authors report that in Blanche-Eglise in the Moselle, on October 2, 1954 at 21:00, the same object than seen at Dieuze the same day at 08:00 P.M. was seen flying at near-ground level by Mr Rémy Rousselle of that village.

[Ref. goe1:] GODELIEVE VAN OVERMEIRE:

Belgian ufologist Godelieve van Overmeire notes in her catalogue that in France, in 1954, on October 2, in Blanche-Eglise, Dieuze, Bassing, an elliptic object operates during two hours in the same area. "Rises, dives, slow, vertiginous displacements. Luminous phenomena and emissions of lights of various colors. At 8 p.m. the first witness is Mr. Rothfuss of Dieuze who observes during one hour complicated maneuvers in direction of Maizières les Vic. From 9 p.m. on, the witnesses of Dieuze lose sight of the thing and at this time it is the close villages: in Bassing Mr. Baumann and in Blanche-Eglise Mr. Remy Rousselle see an object evolving very low until 10 p.m.."

The source is indicated as M. Figuet / J.L. Ruchon: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet..." Alain Lefeuvre pub. 1979, p. 109.

[Ref. lgs1:] LOREN GROSS:

2 October. Bassing and Blanche-Eglise, France. (9:00 - 10:00 p.m.)

Michel writes:

"At 9 p.m. the Dieuze witnesses lost sight of the object. But at the same moment two villages on the opposite sides ofDieuze began to perceive it: Bassing (already visited the night before) and Blanche-Eglise, three miles southwest of Dieuze. The same maneuver was reported by both villages, where it was followed for one whole hour. Then, at 10:00 p.m., the object once more disappeared." (xx.)

(xx.) Michel, Aime. Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery. p.180.

[Ref. lhh1:] LARRY HATCH - "*U* COMPUTER DATABASE":

3920: 1954/10/02 21:00 180 6:40:40 E 48:47:20 N 3333 WEU FRN MSL 6:6

BLANCHE-EGLISE,MSL,FR:3 SEP.OBS/2hrs:OVAL UFO MNVRS:^>^<:SEEN ALLO:/r138#9p4

Ref# 49 MICHEL,Aime: FS & STRAIGHT LINE TH: Page No. 106 : OIL & COAL

[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:

Luc Chastan indicates in his database that in Blanche-Eglise in the Moselle on October 2, 1954 at 09:00 p.m., the same object seen in Dieuze the same evening wanders towards this village flying close to the ground.

Luc Chastan indicates that the source is "Ovni, Premier dossier complet... by Figuet M. / Ruchon J.L. ** Alain Lefeuvre pub. 1979".

[Ref. uda1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:

The website indicates that on 2 October 1954 at 21:00 in Blanche-Eglise, France, an "unusual object was sighted, that had unconventional appearance and performance. One object was observed by three witnesses for over 60 minutes."

The sources are indicated as Michel, Aime, Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, S. G. Phillips, New York, 1958; Vallee, Jacques, Computerized Catalog (N = 3073); Vallee, Jacques, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, Henry Regnery, Chicago, 1966; Vallee, Jacques, Preliminary Catalog (N = 500), (in JVallee01); Vallee, Jacques, Preliminary Catalog (N = 500), (in JVallee01); Hatch, Larry, *U* computer database, Author, Redwood City, 2002.

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

This database recorded the case three times instead of one:

Case Nr. New case Nr. Investigator Date of observation Zip Place of observation Country of observation Hour of observation Classification Comments Identification
19541002 02.10.1954 Blanche Eglise France 21.00 NL
19541002 02.10.1954 Blanche Eglise France 21.00 NL
19541002 02.10.1954 Blanche Eglise France 21.00 NL

Explanations:

Map.

Not looked for yet.

Keywords:

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

Blanche-Eglise, Moselle, Rémy Rousselle, night, object, low

Sources:

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

Document history:

Version: Created/Changed by: Date: Change Description:
0.1 Patrick Gross May 1, 2005 First published.
1.0 Patrick Gross February 27, 2009 Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Additions [aml1], [goe1], [lcn1], [uda1].
1.1 Patrick Gross June 20, 2010 Addition [jve5].
1.2 Patrick Gross September 13, 2014 Addition [lgs1].
1.3 Patrick Gross November 23, 2016 Additions [ler1], [ubk1].
1.4 Patrick Gross 27 novembre 2021 Additions [gqy1], [pis2], [lhh1].

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