The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this website is here.
Reference for this case: 2-Oct-54-Savigny-lès-Beaune.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. lbr1:] NEWSPAPER "LA BOURGOGNE REPUBLICAINE":
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Nevers (from our Press Correspondent.). -- According to the testimonies of five people, whose sincerity cannot be doubted, a flying saucer crossed the sky of Château-Chinon on Sunday evening, around 9 p.m. The strange apparition took place around 9 pm. This time, it is a luminous spot, of oval shape, appearing motionless at a very high altitude. At one time the spot appeared to separate into two parts, and each of the formed discs began to turn at full speed, changing color several times. Then everything went out. At the end of a few minutes, the first light spot reappeared, before splitting again and turning. The same phenomenon repeated several times under the more amazed than frightened eyes of the five residents of Chateau-Chinon.
Is it the same machine that was seen at Santenay at approximately the same hour? In any case, the testimony of the residents of Santenay is confirmed by that of the Lille residents who, a few moments earlier, saw three luminous "croissants" above the region.
Morez (from our special correspondent). -- In the Upper Jura where the statements of the children of Prémanon affirming that they had stoned a saucer, the minds are heated.
The other day, a resident of Les Rousses (whose name is not given) announced that a saucer had landed at the "Combe aux Chèvres" in a small clearing in the forest of the Massacre.
In fact, the many curious (20 cars at least) who drove there, did see a metallic object resplendent in the sun.
In addition, police roadblocks had been installed on all roads. It was learned later that the police were hunting more for Baranès, whose passage to Switzerland was feared, than for the Martian, for the saucer of the forest of the Massacre was only a rain gauge installed there for years!
Saturday, 10 pm. 30 and 23 h. 45, a group of four people from Savigny-les-Beaune saw a very bright "ball of fire" followed by a long green trail, which crossed the sky at a dizzying pace.
Two other people who were in a different place also noticed the phenomenon.
It is therefore not a hallucination ... but is it really a "saucer"?
[Ref. aml1:] AIME MICHEL:
Aimé Michel reports that there was a sighting on October 2, 1954, in Savigny-les-Beaune, France.
[Ref. gqy1:] GUY QUINCY:
Saturday October 2 [, 1954]
[...other cases...]
: Savigny-lès-Beaune (Côte-d'Or): lum.sph.
[...other cases...]
[Ref. via3:] "VIMANA 21" UFOLOGY MAGAZINE:
This magazine listed this case:
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54 10 02 22H30 LN Savigny les Beaune |
[Ref. pis1:] UFOLOGIE "PHENOMENES INCONNUS" UFOLOGY BULLETIN:
This ufology bulletin indicated that there was a case on October 2, 1954, in Savigny; which was a part of a "network" of aligned cases of that day, in their opinion.
[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 Savigny, which he, like Aimé Michel did, thooght to often be "aligned" beyond mere chance:
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[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:
Luc Chastan indicates in his database that in the Côte d'Or in Sauvigny les Beaune on October 2, 1954, at an unknown hour, there was an "Observation of a disc".
The source is indicated as "M.O.C. by Michel Aimé ** Arthaud 1958".
[Ref. ubk1:] "UFO-DATENBANK":
This database recorded this case twice:
| Case Nr. | New case Nr. | Investigator | Date of observation | Zip | Place of observation | Country of observation | Hour of observation | Classification | Comments | Identification |
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| 19541002 | 02.10.1954 | Bourg Savigny | France | 22.30 | NL | |||||
| 19541002 | 02.10.1954 | Savigny Beaune | France |
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Obvious description of a meteor.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Savigny-lès-Beaune, Sauvigny les Beaunes, Côte-d'Or, night, luminous
[----] indicates sources that are not yet available to me.
| Version: | Created/Changed by: | Date: | Change Description: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | June 10, 2009 | First published. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | January 2, 2017 | Addition [ubk1]. |
| 1.2 | Patrick Gross | January 18, 2017 | Addition [lbr1]. Explanations changed, were "Not looked for yet". |
| 1.3 | Patrick Gross | February 14, 2021 | Additions [via3], [pis1], [pis2]. |
| 1.4 | Patrick Gross | April 20, 2022 | Addition [gqy1]. |
