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The 1954 French flap:

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Beg. October, 1954, unknown place, unknown department:

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

Summary:

In his 1954 book "Flying Saucers Uncensored", British author Harold T. Wilkins recounted that in the first week of October 1954, in France, 2000 people saw twelve saucers "dancing a ballet in the sky."

The American Gray Barker, in his flying saucers magazine The Saucerian of the spring of 1955, told on his side that a farmer "from Touron" in France declared that he and his daughter observed 12 flying saucers "dance a ballet in the sky."

Reports:

[Ref. hws1:] HAROLD T. WILKINS:

The author indicates that in the first week of October 1954, in a part of France he does not indicate, 2000 people saw twelve saucers "dancing a ballet in the sky."

[Ref. gbr1:] GRAY BARKER:

Explanations:

I found no city, village or hamlet names Touron. Was it Tournon, Tournon-sur-Rhône, or another Tournon?

Wilkins as well as Barker, whereas they did not invent outright, often got the names of places and dates wrong. As I found nothing in the Press or in French ufology literature on such a case, it is probably not a 1954 report.

Keywords:

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

Multiple, twelve

Sources:

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

• [hws1] "Flying Saucers Uncensored", book by Harold T. Wilkins, Pyramid Books publishers, USA, page 56, 1954.
• [gbr1] "Troubled European Skies, article by Gray Barker, in his flying saucers magazine The Saucerian, Gray Barker editor, USA, Vol. 3, No 2, page 21, Spring 1955.

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