The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this website is here.
Reference for this case: 30-Jun-54-LaManche.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. fso1:] NEWSPAPER "FRANCE SOIR":
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LONDON. -- June 30 (AFP). -- A giant white transport plane was reportedly spotted floating in the English Channel 40 kilometers south of Bournemouth by the pilot of the Portuguese Lisbon-London flight.
Two passengers confirmed the pilot's report. The ministry of Aviation said no civilian aircraft were missing.
Two naval frigates and helicopters are searching the sea at the reported location, but so far the search has yielded no results.
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The location is at sea between Cherbourg-en-Cotentin in the Manche department and Bournemouth in England.
In the 1990s, French ufologist Joël Mesnard, who was the editor of the ufology journal Lumiéres Dans la Nuit, argued that there exists a class of ufologically relevant reports describing "crashes" of what witnesses thought to be an aircraft - rightly or wrongly - and the supposed aircraft was never found, with no aircraft loss corresponding to the "crash."
He might have taken note of this strange 1954 case.
So far, I have found no ordinary explanation or follow-up in the same newspaper or other newspapers.
There is indeed something odd about a so-called "giant" plane being seen in the middle of the English Channel without it being identified afterward.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
La Manche, the Channel, airplane, plane, giant, sea, crash, landing, white, pilots, multiple
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