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Reference number for this case: 16-Oct-54-Moulins. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. mo1] "LA MONTAGNE" NEWSPAPER:
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The luminous ball observed Saturday
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[Ref. ou1] "OURANOS" MAGAZINE:
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10/16/1954 Moulins (08:27 p.m.). Mr. Richard was waiting for his train on platform 3 at the Moulins train station when he saw a sphere (or disc) 18 to 20 cm at arm's length crossing the sky at high speed and in silence. The observation did not last more than 8 to 10 seconds but the witness was able to provide a very detailed report. The craft disappeared towards the northeast. The same machine or a similar one would have been seen in Montluçon, Nevers and Clermont. (La Montagne-Aurillac for 10/22/1954) |
[Ref. ld1:] "LUMIERES DANS LA NUIT" MAGAZINE:
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October 16 (La Montagne for 10/22) Moulins 08:25 p.m.. Mr. Michard sees from the railway station of Moulins a red sphere moving at high speed. |
[Ref. my1] "LES MYSTERES DES OVNIS" WEB FORUM:
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Subject: On 10/16/1954 in Moulins Mon 12 Mar 2012, 05:14 p.m.
Hello all, I have been interested for a few months only in the UFOs and extraterrestrial life, following the show of a video of the researcher Jean-Pierre Petit on Youtube on the subject of the MHD (Magneto Hydro Dynamic). Engineer by training, I am scientifically minded and have a large broadmindedness, which enables me to approach this kind of matter without prejudices but with the amount of scepticism necessary to try to reject the numerous many trickeries which do not miss in this field. Last week, by getting some news, by telephone, about one of my aunts aged of more than 80 years living in the Allier, my native area, the latter asked me whether I had watched at the show about the UFOs aired recently on the Direct 8 channel. I was a little surprised, ignoring that my aunt could be interested in this kind of topic and me having never spoken with any member of my family about my recent interest for this matter. She explained to me then, that her father (my grandfather of the father side thus) had observed, himself, on October 16, 1954, at 08:27 p.m. precisely from the station platform of Moulins in the Allier where he awaited a train, an orange luminous ball of a diameter slightly lower than that of full moon, moving at very high speed without any noise from the south-west towards the North-East. this phenomenon was observed by another witness on this same platform, and an hour later by many other witnesses in another city of the area. the testimony of my grandfather was collected by a journalist of the newspaper "La Montange", my aunt sent to me the photocopy of the article (attached) to this message. I had a vague memory of this story about which my parents had talked to me when I was child and that I had forgotten since, but I had never read the testimony of my grandfather. This testimony has for me a great value because my grandfather, that I knew well as I did live with him in the large family house until his death when I turned 14, was a serious man, educated, trustworthy. Head of a business, former plane pilot, having a great sense of observation, never speaking for nothing. I thus deliver herewith this article of October 1954. a year obviously loaded in UFO observations. |
Not looked for yet.
One could obviously think it was the meteor of October 16, 1954, but there are three problems:
Firstly, the witness specified that there was no trail.
Then, the direction is not exactly that of the meteor; which went from East to West above the north of France, while this ball comes from the South-West, going towards the North-East. It should be noted that the witness checked this direction.
Lastly, it is not the correct hour since the famous meteor was seen elsewhere at approximately 09:30 p.m.. The witness, awaiting a train, in the station platform, had only little chances to be one hour wrong. Besides, he gives an hour "to the minute", "27" instead of the usual "at approximately xx:30" or "xx:15", estimates rounded of at least 5 minutes. This strongly suggests that he had quite simply consulted the station platform clock to get the exact hour of passage of the luminous ball.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Moulins, Allier, luminous, ball, circle, sphere, red, yellow, straight, Michard, Fousse, station, fast, saucer, vermilion, orange, distant, duration
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1.0 | Patrick Gross | October 17, 2016 | First published. |
1.1 | Patrick Gross | December 22. 2018 | Additions [ou1], [ld1]. |