The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this website is here.
Reference for this case: 4-Nov-54-Vallet.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
French ufologist Jean Sider found in the newspaper La Résistance de l'Ouest for November 5, 1954, an observation of 4 November 1954, at 7:15 a.m. in Vallet, of a bright red ball leaving behind a trail of several meters, seen from several places in the town of Vallet by several people who have located it as being above the village of Courrères-Iseron and as going from West to East.
[Ref. jsr1:] JEAN SIDER:
French ufologist Jean Sider found about the case in the newspaper La Résistance de l'Ouest for November 5, 1954, and he indicates that on November 4, 1954, at 7:15 in Vallet, a phenomenon of sharp red ball leaving behind itself a trail of several meters was seen from several places of the community of Vallet by several people who located it as being above the village of Courrères-Iseron and as going from the west to the east.
[Ref. lhh1:] LARRY HATCH - "*U* COMPUTER DATABASE":
4353: 1954/11/04 07:00 15 1:16:00 W 47:10:00 N 3333 WEU FRN LRA 6:A
VALLET+REDOUX+CHALLANS+COURERES,FR++:WAVE/SCRS+NLTS:/r217p126
Ref#194 LUMIERES dans la NUIT.(LDLN France) Issue No. 325 : FARMLANDS
[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:
Luc Chastan indicates that in the Loire Atlantique in Vallet on November 4, 1954 at 07:15 hours "several witnesses located in various places of the community observed a sharp red ball leaving a trail of several meters. It went from west to east and seemed to be above the village of Courrère-Iseron."
Luc Chastan indicates that the source is my website at http://ufologie.net (thus was then the URL of my home page).
[Ref. uda1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:
The website indicates that on 4 November 1954 at 07:00 in Vallet, France, there were "Many reports. More than one object was observed by several witnesses on a farm."
The source is indicated as Hatch, Larry, *U* computer database, Author, Redwood City, 2002.
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This is obviously a description of a meteor.
And the number of other reports at the same date, time and in the same region, strongly indicate that a meteor was seen.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Vallet, Loire-Atlantique, multiple, Courrères-Iseron, ball, red, trail, sky
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| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | January 18, 2009 | Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Additions [lcn1], [uda1]. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | December 12, 2018 | Addition [lhh1]. Addition of the Summary. Explanations changed, were "Not looked for yet." |
