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September 28, 1954, Pont-sur-Yonne, Yonne:

Reference for this case: 28-Sep-54-Pont-sur-Yonne.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Summary:

In his 1958 book on the French wave of 1954, Aimé Michel indicated that on September 28, 1954, at 08:30 p.m., in Pont-sur-Yonne, 10 kilometers northwest of Sens, the employees of the railway station made an "absolutely concordant" observation with those of Vauders and Sens that day.

Reports:

[Ref.aml1:] AIME MICHEL:

Aimé Michel indicates that on September 28, 1954 at 08:30 p.m., in Pont-sur-Yonne, 10 kilometers in the North-West of Sens, the employees of the railway station made an absolutely concordant observation with those of Vaudeurs and Sens this day.

[Ref. gqy1:] GUY QUINCY:

September 28, 1954

[... Other cases...]

08:30 p.m.: Pont-sur-Yonne/Vaudeurs (Yonne): lum.obj.

[... Other cases...]

[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:

Luc Chastan indicates that in the Yonne in "Pont su Yonne" on September 28, 1954 at 08:30 p.m., there was an "Observation of a shining object going from West to East by the employees of the railway station."

Luc Chastan indique que la source est "M.O.C. par Michel Aimé ** Arthaud 1958".

[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
19540928			28.09.1954		Pont.yonne	France	20.30	NL
19540928			28.09.1954		Vaudeur Pont Yonne	France	20.30	NL

Explanations:

Possible shooting star, meteor, plane...

Keywords:

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

Pont-sur-Yonne, Yonne, multiple, railwaymen

Sources:

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

[aml1] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Arthaud publisher, France, 1958.
[gqy1] "Observations 1954", monograph by Guy Quincy, France - Algeria, private publication, page 8, the 1950's.
[aml1] "A Propos des Soucoupes Volantes - Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Planète publishers, France, 1966.
[aml1] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Seghers publisher, France, page 122, 1977.
[aml1] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Robert Laffont publisher, France, page 132, 1978.
[lcn1] Base OVNI France, website by Luc Chastan, France, circa 2005, at baseovnifrance.free.fr/listgen.php?typlist=1&page=0&numobs=2325
[ubk1] Online database UFO-Datenbank, Germany, found in 2016, at ufodatenbank.de

Document history:

Version:	Created/Changed by:	Date:	Change Description:
0.1	Patrick Gross	December 14, 2005	First published.
1.0	Patrick Gross	December 24, 2009	Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Additions [lcn1].
1.1	Patrick Gross	February 9, 2017	Addition [ubk1].
1.2	Patrick Gross	September 28, 2019	Addition of the Summary.
1.3	Patrick Gross	November 23, 2021	Addition [gqy1].

This page was last updated on November 23, 2021.