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October 16, 1954, Le Tolloy, Vosges:

Reference for this case: 16-Oct-54-Le-Tolloy.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Reports:

[Ref. lbs2:] UFOLOGY BULLETIN "LA LIGNE BLEUE SURVOLEE?":

Num. DATE PLACE TIME SHORT DESCRIPTION 1234 SOURCES EXPLANATIONS
10/16/1954 LE THOLLOY ?? Idem. [="Big luminous ball with trail."] Observed by a country guard. ...X Liberté de l'Est for 11/05/1954 Meteor?

[Ref. cnu1:] CNEGU:

The CNEGU indicates that their case number F/98/88/541016 (04) in "Le Tholloy" has as witness: Mr Victor Giroux, and that the source is an article of La Liberté de l'Est for November 5, 1954, whose entire text is:

"Mr. Victor GIROUX stated to us that he also saw on last 16 October, being at the crossroads of the war memorial where the visibility is very clear, a luminous sphere of a diameter of 10 cm coming from LE THOLLOY and moving towards BELRUPT leaving behind itself a trail of the same width but not touching directly the apparatus. This phenomenon lasted 15 second. Mr. GIROUX is a rural policeman, an old man who does not have anything of a young pranksters as there are some, claims that there was no comparison between the produced phenomenon and a comet or a meteor."

[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
19541016 16.10.1954 Tholloy France NL

Explanations:

Description fitting the well-known meteor of October 16, 1954.

There is no "Le Tholloy" in the Vosges department; there is "Le Tolloy":

Map.

Keywords:

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Le Tolloy, le Tholloy, Vosges, Victor Giroux, sphere, luminous, trail, duration, Belrupt

Sources:

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Document history:

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0.1 Patrick Gross September 25, 2007 First published.
1.0 Patrick Gross December 28, 2009 Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version.
1.1 Patrick Gross March 2, 2017 Addition [ubk1].
1.2 Patrick Gross June 13, 2022 Addition [lbs2].

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