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October 12 or 13, 1954, Cortevaix, Saône-et-Loire:

Reference for this case: 1213-Oct-54-Cortevaix.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Summary:

In the revised 1966 version of his book "Mystérieux Objets Célestes" of 1958, Aimé Michel reported without any detail nor source a sighting that would be part of an "alignment" of sightings, at Cortevaix, on October 13, 1954.

It seems that Jacques Vallée gave the date of a Cortevaix sighting as October 12, 1954 and the hour as 06:30 p.m.

A US website citing Vallée tells: "An unidentified object was sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. One object was observed by one witness."

Reports:

[Ref. aml3:] AIME MICHEL:

[...] the line joining two other observations of that day [October 13, 1954]: Cortevaix, 70 kilometers to the northwest, and Romans, 10 kilometers south-south-east. This is the only alignment that can be seen that day.

[Ref. gqy1:] GUY QUINCY:

Scan.

October 13 [, 1954]

[... other cases...]

? [=unknown hour]: Cortevaix(Saône-et-loire):lumin.obj.

[... other cases...]

[Ref. uda1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:

12 Oct 1954 - Cortevaix, Bourgogne, France

12 October 1954 18:30

Cortevaix, Bourgogne, France

An unidentified object was sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. One object was observed by one witness.

Hynek rating: NL

Vallee rating: FB1

The source is noted as "Vallee, Jacques Computerized Catalog (N = 3073)".

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

This database recorded the case twice instead of once:

Case Nr. New case Nr. Investigator Date of observation Zip Place of observation Country of observation Hour of observation Classification Comments Identification
19541012 12.10.1954 Cortevaix France 18.30 NL
19541013 13.10.1954 Cortevaix France

Explanations:

Map.

Totally insufficient information, no strangeness.

Keywords:

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

Cortevaix, Saône-et-Loire, night, luminous, unique

Sources:

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

Document history:

Version: Created/Changed by: Date: Change Description:
1.0 Patrick Gross February 21, 2017 First published.
1.1 Patrick Gross May 2, 2019 Additions [aml3], [uda1], Summary. Day changed from "12" to "12 or 13". Explanations changed, were "Not looked for yet."
1.2 Patrick Gross May 9, 2022 Additions [gqy1].

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