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The 1954 French flap:

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October 15, 1954, Gien, Loiret:

Reference number for this case: 15-Oct-54-Gien. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Summary:

A listing by ufologist Jacques Vallée, in 1966, indicated without other information that there was a sighting on October 15, 1954, in Gien, France.

A US website in the 2000's said that it was at 08:30 p.m., and that 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 on a highway."

Reports:

[Ref. jve5:] JACQUES VALLEE:

349

-002.62899

47.68830

1954

GIEN

151

C**

312

[Ref. uda1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:

The website indicates that on 15 October 1954 at 20:30 in Gien, 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 on a highway."

The sources are indicated as "Michel, Aime, Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, S. G. Phillips, New York, 1958; Vallee, Jacques, Computerized Catalog (N = 3073); Vallee, Jacques, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, Henry Regnery, Chicago, 1966; Vallee, Jacques, Preliminary Catalog (N = 500), (in JVallee01); Hatch, Larry, *U* computer database, Author, Redwood City, 2002".

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

Case Nr.	New case Nr.	Investigator	Date of observation	Zip	Place of observation	Country of observation	Hour of observation	Classification	Comments	Identification
19541015			15.10.1954		Gien	France

Explanations:

The information is totally insufficient; but it is possible that it was he University of Padia balloon was widely reported that day.

Keywords:

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

Gien, Loiret

Sources:

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

[jve5] "Catalogue préliminaire de 500 observations", listing in "Les Phénomènes Insolites de l'Espace", book by Jacques and Janine Vallée, Table Ronde publishers, France, 1966.
[jve5] "Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma", book by Jacques and Janine Vallée, Henry Regnery publisher, USA, page 58, 1966.
c[jve5] "Catalogue préliminaire de 500 observations", listing in "Les Phénomènes Insolites de l'Espace", book by Jacques and Janine Vallée, Robert Laffont publisher, France, page 252, 1978.
[----] "*U* Computer Database", compiled by Larry Hatch, USA, 2002.
[uda1] "15 Oct 1954 - Gien, France", web page by the UFOdna website, circa 2009, at www.ufodna.com/uf02/uf2/022943.htm
[ubk1] Online database UFO-Datenbank, Germany, found in 2016, at ufodatenbank.de

Document history:

Version:	Created/Changed by:	Date:	Change Description:
1.0	Patrick Gross	July 3, 2010	First published.
1.1	Patrick Gross	February 29, 2017	Addition [ubk1].
1.2	Patrick Gross	August 4, 2019	Addition of the Summary. Explanations changed, were "Not looked for yet."

This page was last updated on August 4, 2019.