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Reference for this case: 21-Oct-54-Dieppe.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
A US UFO sightings website in the 2010s reported that in the computer catalog of ufologist Jacques Vallée, there is a record of a sighting of October 21, 1954, time not given, in Dieppe, of what would be an unidentified object, but which had "an appearance and behavior which most likely would have a conventional explanation".
I found in the national newspaper L'Aurore for October 22, 1954, a mention of an observation in Dieppe: several residents had seen "a luminous ball of blue-green color in the sky."
[Ref. aue1:] NEWSPAPER "L'AURORE":
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DIEPPE has nothing left to envy in other French cities: it has just received a visit from flying saucers. Several residents of this town claimed to have seen a luminous ball, blue-green in color, in the sky.
Aussay, a small town near Dieppe, was overflown by a mysterious craft that emitted a strange whistling sound. It was shaped like a gigantic cigar, possibly 15 to 18 meters long; at the center of the craft was a disc topped with a dome.
In HAM (Somme), three motorcyclists, Messrs. Marc and Gilles Lemaire, and Jean Ivard, were on their way to work when they noticed in the sky a red disc followed by a flaming cone moving at the speed of an airplane. At the exact moment the craft passed over the motorcyclists, their engines suddenly stopped and their headlights went out. Everything returned to normal when the mysterious object disappeared.
In the Nièvre, a luminous disc and a red globe were seen by many people. Above the municipal park of Nevers, students of the Saint-Cyr institution observed a circular, very bright craft heading westward.
In Charente-Maritime. -- A motorist from the Charbonnière area was driving with his 3 ½-year-old son on the road from Sérifère to Paille when, around 9:30 p.m., the child and he felt painful tingling sensations, like electric shocks, which increased as they went on.
The car's engine suddenly stopped and the headlights went out. The child began to cry. A bright glow, shifting from bright red to orange, dazzled the occupants of the car, who saw a motionless craft in the sky. Then what they had recognized as a flying saucer vanished into the night.
[Caption under drawing:] A "MARSOUIN"!...
[Ref. uda1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:
The website indicates that on 21 October 1954 in Dieppe, France, "An unidentified object was sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. One object was observed."
The source is indicated as "Vallee, Jacques, Computerized Catalog (N = 3073)".
[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 |
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| 19541021 | 21.10.1954 | Dieppe | France | NL |
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Totally insufficient information, no strangeness reported.
Probably the meteor of October 21, 1954 at 7:15 p.m. in that area.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Dieppe, Seine-Maritime
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| Version: | Created/Changed by: | Date: | Change Description: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | February 28, 2010 | First published. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | March 6, 2017 | Addition [ubk1]. |
| 1.2 | Patrick Gross | September 17, 2025 | Addition [uae1]. In the Summary, addition of the information from [uae1]. |
