The 1954 French flap:

Admired in various places, not without emotion

The ballet of the "Flying Saucers"
continues in the sky of Lorraine

In the Moselle, mysterious machines attracted the glances.

Last Friday, at about 11 p.m., several residents of Bassing, among whose MM. Romain and Renfort, saw, above the area of Vergaville and Bidestroff, a luminous object of 2 to 3 meters length, showinf the shape of an ellipse and which moved at very variable speeds. The witnesses heard a gentle humming of engine. Sometimes the alleged flying saucer slowed its travel down to the of being motionless, then it went up with a vertiginous pace. The same phenomenon was observed Saturday, between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., by Mr. Remy Rousselle, of Blanche-Eglise, and Mr. Baumann, of Bassing.

A large green disc

In its turn, the sky of the area of Dieuze saw a flying saucer evolving. It was Sunday evening. It was exactly 08:17 p.m. when Mr. Pierre Laplace, aged 19, electrician with the Kuhlmann Establishments, in Dieuze, and residing in Vergaville, saw in the sky a large luminous disc of green color, at the height of the wood of Brides, between the villages of Vergaville and Kerprich. The bulky point, he said, was at approximately 3000 meters. Mr. Laplace, having stopped, followed the evolutions of the machine. When he saw it for the first time, it was motionless. Suddenly, specifies the electrician, the machine launched sparkling lights of the color of ultraviolet rays; it then moved at a speed such as nowadays' jet airplanes, seeming, close to him, to hover.

The flying saucer, because that's what it is, said the observer, as well as the passers by that Mr. Laplace had stopped and who are positive, stopped at the height of the Paquis of Guéblin; it crossed the distance between Guéblin and Kerprich three times, always at a tremendous pace, but extraordinarily, always stopping in the same place.

Suddenly, the craft launched new gleams, seeming to locate the ground, and went down until approximately 600 meters from ground. Then, making a U turn, very slowly, it went down more and more and finally, seemed to land at the level of the Côte-des-Vignes, located at a little distance of Bedestroff. About thirty people, cyclists, pedestrians, motorists, followed, extremely interested, the evolutions of the saucer. Mr. Laplace and some other spectators having wanted to on motorbike to the spot of landing, the saucer took height again and disappeared behind a curtain of trees. It was 9 p.m. at this time. The inhabitants of the area who saw the saucer are M.M. Lucien Victorien, Primon, building contractor in Vergaville; Mr Kinowsky, workman in shoes, Claude Renfort of Bassing, as well as the manager of the Ecos of Vergaville and his family.

Amazingly, at 11:45 p.m., several unknown people stationing on the road as well as Mr. Domant, a garage workman residing in Guéblin, and Mr. Glicher, of the same village, looked with attention, but without daring to approach it, a disc of green color which was in the fields, at a small distance of the road. Let us finally report that Saturday, between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., Mr Rothfuss of Dieuze, had also seen, circulating in the airs, between the farm of Boule and Maizières-les-Vic, a luminous disc whose details correspond exactly to those given by Mr. Laplace.

Admired in various places not without emotion...

The ballet of the flying saucers continues in the Lorraine sky but the mysterious machines remain elusive

The "flying saucers" seem to engage in a ceaseless round in the eastern sky and elsewhere. Their passage is reported in a hundred places each day. We lack space here for us to echo all the news reaching us about it. Suffice to mention a few of the last and main stories related to this.

In Remiremont, Sunday at 11 am, a hundred people were able to see, from the enclosure of the Pomological fair of the Campus Martius, what is believed to be a flying saucer or a cigar or a disc, which let loose a trail of smoke in its wake, when rising or descending, turning around the sun. People skeptical of saucers stories told us to have observed the phenomenon very well.

The "saucer" remained ten minutes suspended in the atmosphere and disappeared. Two to three meters in length...

In the Moselle, mysterious machines attracted attention

Last Friday, around 23h, several residents of Bassing, including Mr. Romain and Mr. Renfort, saw, above the region between Vergaville and Bidestroff, a luminous object of 2 to 3 meters in length, having the shape of an ellipse and which moved at variable speeds. Witnesses heard a slight engine roar. Sometimes the alleged flying saucer slowed its course up to the point to rest, and then went back at breakneck speed.

The same phenomenon was observed on Saturday between 21h and 22h by Mr. Remy Rousselle, of Blanche-Eglise and Mr. Baumann of Bassing.

A large green disk

In turn, the sky of the region of Dieuze saw evolve a flying saucer.

It was Sunday night. It was exactly 8:17 p.m. when Mr. Pierre Laplace, aged 19, electrician at the Etablissements Kuhlmann in Dieuze and living in Vergaville, saw in the sky a large bright green disk, at the hieght of the wood of Brides, between the village of Vergaville and Kerprich. The large spot was, he said, at about 3,000 meters. Laplace stood, and followed the moves of the machine. When he saw it for the first time, it was motionless. Suddenly, says the electrician, the machine threw glittering lights of the color of ultraviolet rays, it then moved at a rate such that current jet planes appear motionless in comparison. The flying saucer, because this is what it was, said the witness, as well as passers by Mr. Laplace had stopped and who are formal, stopped at the height of the Paquis of Guéblin, it flew the distance between Guéblin and Kerprich three times, always at breakneck speed, but, extraordinary thing, it always stopped at the same place.

Suddenly the craft launched new gleams, seemingly locating the ground, and went down at about 600 meters of the ground, then making a semicircle, very slowly, it got more and more close to the ground and finally, seemed to land on the hill of the Vines, located not far from Bedestroff. Thirty people, cyclists, pedestrians, motorists followed, extremely interested, the changes in the saucer. Laplace and some other spectators having wanted to go on a motorcycle at the landing place, the saucer again took off and disappeared behind a curtain of trees.

It was 9 p.m. then.

The locals who saw the saucer are Mssrs Lucien Victorien and Primon, entrepreneurs in masonry in Vergaville, Kinowsky, shoemaker in Bataville, Claude Ronfort of Bassing and the manager of the Eco in Vergaville and his family.

Curiously, at 23:45, several unknown parked on the road, and Mr. Domant, mechanic in Guéblin and Mr. Gilcher, of the same village, watched attentively but without daring to approach it, a green disc which was in the fields, a short distance from the road.

Finally, let's note that on Saturday between 20 and 21 hours, Mr. Rothfuss, of Dieuze, had also seen circulate in the air between the farm of the Boule and Maizières-les-Vic, a luminous disc whose details are exactly those given by Mr. Laplace.

SAUCERS MULTIPLY DESPITE ADMITTED HOAXES

The "witnesses" of "flying saucer" movements have stopped being funny, so numerous... and clumsy they are. Some make genuine efforts to describe the most astonishing craft in the shape of discs, balls, cigars, even half-cigars in various colors. Some have even described a "cucumber" flying over Vienne and Deux-Sèvres.

But others undermine this mysterious scaffolding of "troubling facts" by trying too hard: Bernard Goujon, notably, the road worker from Faremoutiers (near Coulommiers), who claimed on Friday to have seen in a field a "saucer" shaped like a mushroom, of which he gladly showed the imprints and described in detail the structure, had to admit the hoax to the public prosecutor.

- I'm the one who made the imprints and I saw nothing.

After the confessions of the pranksters in Amiens and the jokers from Portugal, it must once again be acknowledged that every serious investigation into landed "saucers" leads to a hoax.

That didn't stop a group of "trustworthy" individuals from spotting yesterday a shiny craft flying between Mont Blanc and Mont Lachat.

A flying beehive

There are more.

In the Somme (again in the Somme), in Vron, two 18-year-olds, Bernard Devoisin and René Condette, "saw" a craft with a pointed roof, shaped like a beehive, which had landed by the roadside and took off after a "small-sized" individual got inside.

In other parts of the department, orange-colored discs were seen...

In Angoulême, the saucer seen by Mr. and Mrs. Voudon turned from red to green before disappearing.

The Massif Central has not been spared. From Clermont and Vichy, a shiny mass was observed. Aurrec [sic] and Saint-Paulien (Haute-Loire) were reportedly overflown by a "large luminous ball."

In Moselle, it's all about cigars. One was seen on Sunday over Dieuze. But yesterday, three residents of Hagondange saw a "luminous diamond."

Finally, in the Nord, the saucers are multiplying. Mr. Gaston Leceune [sic], a miner in Anaullin [sic], saw a metallic dome, three meters tall, land in his garden just a few meters from him. He ran to raise the alarm at the nearby café, and about fifteen billiard players, brandishing their cues, arrived just as the saucer was taking off. Fifty meters in the air, the craft was joined by two other saucers.

To be continued.

Flying Saucers

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Mr. Fletcher himself observed an object flying over Nairobi. He was in his observatory with four friends at the time.

- "It was 1:40 a.m.," he said, "when a large glow appeared very low in the east, at about 700 meters altitude, intensifying to a pale yellow. The object rose, descended, then climbed again before finally disappearing into the clouds."

Mr. Fletcher believes that the existence of flying saucers should not be doubted: "The reports," he says, "come from very experienced observers all over the globe." And he adds:

- "The most reassuring feature of the affair is that the unidentified flying objects do not appear to be piloted by beings hostile to the inhabitants of our planet."

DANCE OF FLYING CRESCENTS NEAR LILLE

LILLE. -- On the night from Sunday to Monday, between Annoeuillin and Provin, near Lille, hundreds of people saw a "flying crescent" moving through the sky.

A miner from Annoeuillin, Mr. Gaston Lecoeuvre, alerted the patrons of a café, claiming he had just seen a luminous crescent-shaped object about three meters high land in his garden. When the café customers came outside, the "flying crescent" was maneuvering in the sky along with two other similar objects.

Soon, about a hundred people in Annoeuillin, Provin, and surrounding villages were observing the three objects, which only disappeared after 25 minutes. Regional gendarmerie units have already collected numerous testimonies.

SIGHTINGS REPORTED EVERYWHERE...

Saucers, cigars, discs, balls, and other "flying" objects were seen in Chancelade (Haute-Vienne), Willer (Haut-Rhin), Gouesnach, near Quimper, Ambazac (Haute-Vienne), Dijon, Marcoing near Cambrai, Pommier (Indre), Rouen, Ajaccio, Cholet, Vannes.

Flying saucers have also been seen in the Ivory Coast. The news came via an official report sent to the governor by Mr. Vernhet, chief administrator of the Danané subdivision, a town located 500 kilometers northwest of Abidjan. The phenomena were observed on September 19, between 8:30 and 9:05 p.m., by the local population, the gendarmerie post commander, the chief doctor of the medical center, Father Vyars of the Lyon Missions, Mr. Vernhet, the subdivision chief, and his wife, all gathered in the courtyard of the residence.

In the sky over Briançon, from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., a flying cigar was observed by credible individuals. The first to see it was a gendarme, Mr. Roux. The craft was later seen in Mont Genève by Mr. Paulin Balcet, deputy mayor, Mr. Falconnet, a hotelier, and other people.

While many reports suggest the existence of mysterious flying machines, others are highly fanciful. Such is the case of Mr. Angelo Giraudeau, 53, from Breuil-Chaussée (Charente-Maritime). This villager claims that, on his way to work at 5 a.m., he saw a luminous craft landed on the road, beside which stood a small man wearing a spacesuit. This being from another planet made gestures toward Mr. Giraudeau, who chose to flee...

- An oval disc, five times the size of any star, was seen in Vondrecourt (Meuse) by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, electricians, who observed it with binoculars as it moved from east to west. The two witnesses are considered by the gendarmes who took their statements again to be absolutely trustworthy.

- A red-orange luminous disc was seen above the Sainte-Foy hill, south of the Fourvière basilica, by a Lyon journalist.

- Two green luminous discs were seen Sunday evening between Véraville and Perpirch (Moselle) by several motorcyclists.

- A luminous diamond, moving southeast, was seen at the same time in Hagondange.

- A barrel one meter in diameter and two meters tall, studded with luminous yellow nails and seemingly mounted on a pivot, was seen on the road from Montmoreau to Villebois by a young Charentais farmer, Mr. Jean Allary, 27. The object disappeared quickly.

- A flying cigar was seen Sunday by a resident of Dieuze (Moselle).

- Mr. and Mrs. Peyssier of Saint-Etienne, who were camping in Aurec-sur-Loire (Haute-Loire), saw in the sky a luminous object resembling a group of stars moving at high speed, about 2000 meters above the ground.

At the same time, several people saw above the bell tower of Aurec several similar objects that, after hovering briefly, crossed the sky heading southwest.

FLYING SAUCERS EXIST
STATES A GERMAN ROCKET SPECIALIST

HAMBURG. -- Flying saucers exist and represent at least ten percent of objects observed in the sky, declared last night Professor Hermann Oberth, German rocket specialist and honorary president of the "German Society for Astronautics," during a lecture in Hamburg.

Professor Oberth added that, in his opinion, it is possible these craft carry crews of beings similar to humans, and proposed the term "uranides" to refer to these unknown beings. The "uranides," continued the German scientist, are probably thousands of years ahead of our time.

To explain why no flying saucer has yet crashed on Earth, Professor Oberth suggests that the pilots may have perfect control of their machines and that, for reasons beyond human understanding, they may not wish to make contact with Earth's inhabitants.

Considering another possibility, Oberth recalled that the observed saucers might be improvements of the V-7, German rockets from the end of the war, several prototypes of which, according to the scientist, fell into Russian hands in 1945.

October 1st [, 1954]

[... Other cases...]

11:00 p.m.: Vicinity of Dieuze(Moselle)/Vergaville/Bidestroff/Bassing
lum.obj. in s. of ellipse moving

[... Other cases...]

October 2 [, 1954]

[... Other cases...]

08:00 p.m.: Dieuze (Moselle): obj.of elliptic s., moving at low altit;, going up, hovering, and emitting beams of light of various colors, during One hour

[... Other cases...]

10 - Case of Kerprich, between Vergaville and Guebling, Moselle.

On October 3, many observations were made in Dieuzé, Bassing, Kerprich, Bidestroff... This prompted a lot of articles in the local press that B & B [= [bbr1]] did not consult, because if they had done so, this work would have saved them from further displaying the wickedness of the method used for their demolition work.

Page 34, they report having referred to Jacques Vallée (Phénomènes insolites de l'espace, La Table Ronde, 1966, Paris) and Guy Quincy's file. They do not give any witness names; which is already suspect and explains why they write on page 35: "It is therefore at the first house in the town, at the town hall, that we decide to knock". Which town hall? Why not give the name of the locality? Anyway, the town hall could not satisfy them and they then claim to have made inquiries with the villagers. And it is these anonymous informants from an unknown village who offer them the "key to the mystery": it was a glow produced by the fall of a high voltage cable. Conclusion: it was a misinterpretation!

However, when one reads the local press, one can realize that Le Lorrain for October 5, 1954, page 5, did indeed indicate that the "flying saucer" observed, was first spotted at 3000m, and descended to 600m (good performance for a high power cable !!). Then after several very fast courses between Guebling and Kerprich, it seemed to land "at the height of the Côte des Vignes, not far from Bidestroff." Thirty people followed the maneuvers of the "saucer" of which twelve are mentioned by name. Among them: Mr. Laplace, electrician in Vergaville, who would have been able to tell the difference between a broken high voltage line and a UFO. Better: MM. Gilcher and Domant, from Guebling, saw a disc land in a field. They ran to get closer and saw a troop of people who were contemplating the machine without daring to go closer to the phenomenon. Moreover, the next day, October 4, around the same hour, Mr. Rothfuss, of Dieuzé, could observe a luminous disc whose details correspond exactly to those given by Mr. Laplace.

What is the connection in these testimonies with a cut high voltage line? Who are their informants and where did they reside? It turns out, moreover, that I checked in the local newspapers if one could trace the accident alleged by our debunkers. However, the only mention of a broken electric cable appears in Le Lorrain of October 21, page 6, which occurred on October 20 between Habeaurupt and Barançon, a sector different from the one we are interested in here!

Here is yet another investigation knowingly sabotaged to serve the interests of their debunking. As for "going to knock on the door of the town hall" and "to inquire with the villagers", it is a way like any other to cover up one more forfeiture. The anonymity of the first and second indicates imaginary contacts, not even made by telephone, the only working tool they used...

3917: 1954/10/02 20:00 60 6:43:00 E 48:49:00 N 3333 WEU FRN MSL 8:9

DIEUZE,FR:OVOID^:CLIMBS+HVRS+MNVRS/1HR:FANTASTIC DISPLAY:/LDLN#108+/r138#9

Ref# 49 MICHEL,Aime: FS & STRAIGHT LINE TH: Page No. 104 : FARMLANDS

2 October. Dieuze, France. (8:00 p.m.)

Repeat show.

Michel writes:

"The following day, Saturday October 2, the same show started over again above the same region. But this time it was observed by several villages and for two consecutive hours. The first witness was M. Rothfuss, of Dieuze, who sighted the object at 8 p.m. For an entire hour he was able to observe its complicated maneuvers: ascensions, sharp descents, with slow or rapid changes of position, all in a southeasterly direction, towartd Maizieres-les-Vic. But this time these maneuvers were accompanied by luminous phenomena and the emission of light of many colors." (xx.)

(xx.) Michel, Aime. Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery. pp.104-105.

UFO wave in Metz and its region

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Spheres, luminous cones or cigars, discharging of batteries, dancing colors, etc., between the 1st and the 21st of October 1954, some twenty testimonies and observations of UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) were collected in the Moselle, the more particularly in the communes of Vergaville, Bidestroff, Kerprich, Guébling, Morsbach, Moncourt, Saint-Avold, Saint-Quirin and Jouy-aux-Arches. In Pournoy-la-Chétive, near Metz, two children declared that they had seen an alien with a hairy face come down from his flying saucer to come and speak to them in an incomprehensible language.