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October 8, La Colmiane, La Colmiane, Alpes-Maritimes:

Reference number for this case: 8-Oct-54-La Colmiane. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Summary:

In 1979, ufologists Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon indicated in their book, without giving their source, that on October 8, 1954 at 11:15 p.m. in La Colmiane in the Alpes-Maritimes department, an orange disc moving in arabesques was observed.

Reports:

[Ref. fru1:] MICHEL FIGUET AND JEAN-LOUIS RUCHON:

The two authors and ufologists indicate that on October 8, 1954 at 11:15 p.m. in Nice in the department of the Alpes-Maritimes, a disc of orange color making complicated manoeuvers was observed in La Colmiane.

The authors do not provide a source reference

[Ref. lhh1:] LARRY HATCH - "*U* COMPUTER DATABASE":

4023: 1954/10/08 23:20 1 7:16:00 E 43:42:00 N 3333 WEU FRN AMR 7:6

NICE,FR:ORG SCR DANCES/SKY:BACK 9OCT+IN St-CHAMAS/2000-2315hr >S

Ref# 30 FIGEUT[sic]&RUCHON: OVNI: Le 1er Dossier Page No. 135 : COASTLANDS

[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:

Luc Chastan indicates that in the "Alpes Maritime" in Nice on Octobre 8, 1954, at 23:15, there was a disc of orange color making complicated manoeuvers.

Luc Chastan indicates that the source is "Ovni, Premier dossier complet... by Figuet M./ Ruchon J.L. ** Alain Lefeuvre pub. 1979".

[Ref. ubk1:] "UFO-DATENBANK":

This database recorded this case twice:

Case Nr.	New case Nr.	Investigator	Date of observation	Zip	Place of observation	Country of observation	Hour of observation	Classification	Comments	Identification
19541008			08.10.1954		La Colmiane	France		NL
19541008			08.10.1954		La Colmiane	France		NL

Explanations:

The information is totally insufficient; this may have been a helicopter for example.

La Colmiane is in the mountaine at almost 40 km from Nice.

Keywords:

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

La Colmiane, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, disc, orange, manoeuvres

Sources:

[----] indicates sources which I have not yet checked.

[fru1] "OVNI, Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochées en France", book by Michel Figuet and Jean Louis Ruchon, Alain Lefeuvre publisher, France, page 135, 1979.
[lhh1] "*U* Computer Database", database by Larry Hatch, USA, circa 2002.
[lcn1] Base OVNI France, website by Luc Chastan, France, circa 2005, at baseovnifrance.free.fr/detobs.php?numobs=806
[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	June 4, 2005	First published.
1.0	Patrick Gross	January 26, 2009	Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Addition [lcn1].
1.1	Patrick Gross	February 20, 2017	Addition [ubk1].
1.2	Patrick Gross	August 14, 2019	Additions [lhh1], Summary. Explanations changed, were "Not looked for yet."

This page was last updated on August 14, 2019.