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October 16, 1954, Bouxurolles, Vosges:

Reference number for this case: 16-Oct-54-Bouxurulles. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Reports:

[Ref. le1:] "LA LIBERTE DE L'EST" NEWSPAPER:

IN BOUXURULLES (THE VOSGES) A FLYING SAUCER WAS SEEN

Mrs. Céline Voirin claims to have been last Saturday at 09:30 p.m. the witness of a phenomenon which melted her incredulity with the myth of the saucers.

Gone outside to study the weather, she saw - nor without great amazement - come towards her, a large luminous ball leaving behind it a luminous trail, slightly lengthened.

Mrs. Voirin's family did not believe her but she remains convinced that she had not been the subject of an hallucination and she longs to know if someone else saw the same appearance at the same time as she did.

[Ref. cn1:] CNEGU:

CNEGU has catalogue their case number F/98/88541016 (01) as having taken place in Bouxurulles, on Saturday, October 16, 1954 at 09:30 p.m., local time, with Mrs. Céline Voirin as witness, and an article of La Liberté de l'Est for October 21, 1954, as source, indicating:

"IN BOUXURULLES (THE VOSGES) A F.S. WAS SEEN"

"Mrs. Céline Voirin claims to have been last Saturday at 09:30 p.m. the witness of a phenomenon which melted her incredulity with the myth of the saucers. Gone outside to study the weather, she saw - nor without great amazement - come towards her, a large luminous ball leaving behind it a luminous trail, slightly lengthened. Mrs. Voirin's family did not believe her but she remains convinced that she had not been the subject of an hallucination and she longs to know if someone else saw the same appearance at the same time as she did."

Explanations:

The meteor of October 16, 1954, at 09:30 p.m..

Keywords:

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Bouxurulles, Vosges, Celine Voirin, ball, luminous, trail, night

Sources:

[---] indicates sources which I have not yet checked.

[le1] Article in the regional newspaper La Liberté de l'Est, France, October 21, 1954.
[cn1] "Catalogue Rétroactif 1954 des Cas Vosgiens", article by the ufology group CNEGU, in the ufology magazine Lumières Dans La Nuit (LDLN), France, #263-264, page 41, May/June 1986.

Document history:

Version:	Created/Changed by:	Date:	Change Description:
0.1	Patrick Gross	April 4, 2007	First published.
1.0	Patrick Gross	December 26, 2009	Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Additions [1].

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