The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this website is here.
Reference for this case: Beg-Oct-54-Biarritz.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
The regional newspaper Le Journal de Biarritz et de la Côte Basque for October 7, 1954, reported among other sightings and misinterpretations, that Officer Savarit, from Biarritz, stated:
"I had just returned home around four in the morning after finishing my shift, when I heard outside something like the sound of an engine. I opened the windows of my apartment and, leaning out, I very clearly saw in the sky a luminous round craft that seemed to have a hole in its center. Two nozzles seemed to come out of this disc-shaped craft. From one of them, lights were escaping. The craft moved very quickly in the direction of the sea. I soon lost sight of it."
[Ref. jbz1:] NEWSPAPER "LE JOURNAL DE BIARRITZ":
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After the Bayonne police officer, then customs officer Laborde, from Béhobie, who saw a mysterious green trail in the sky, a Biarritz painter and a police officer from the same town in turn saw mysterious craft in the sky.
Officer Savarit, from Biarritz, declared:
"I had just returned home around four in the morning after finishing my shift, when I heard outside something like the sound of an engine. I opened the windows of my apartment and, leaning out, I very clearly saw in the sky a luminous round craft that seemed to have a hole in its center. Two nozzles seemed to come out of this disc-shaped craft. From one of them, lights were escaping. The craft moved very quickly in the direction of the sea. I soon lost sight of it."
Another Biarritz resident, Dimitri Ziko, a well-known painter, was working Monday morning, around 9:30, in a house on the outskirts of Biarritz overlooking the lake of La Négresse. He was with one of his friends, Mr. Constant Katsupis, when he saw in the sky an oval craft from which long trails of gray-colored vapor escaped. The craft was coming from the direction of Spain and flew very quickly without any sound, very high in the sky, following the coast toward the Landes. It disappeared into the clouds.
Two other people: Mr. Chatenay, from the villa "Alcé," and Mr. Junqua, a cabinetmaker living nearby, also saw the phenomenon at the same time.
NO SAUCER IN THE SAINT-BERNARD ESTATE PARK
Yesterday evening and this morning, the rumor
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The case seems quite strange at first glance, the description not corresponding at all to the usual meteors, airplanes, helicopters, balloons, etc.
It is all the more regrettable that this case went unnoticed, without any known investigation.
Since the witness was a police officer, there may have been an "official investigation," but I found no trace of one so far.
I therefore leave the case as a "unidentified, high strangeness" for the moment.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Savarit, policeman, morning, sound, engine, luminous, round, craft, hole, nozzles, disc, lights, fast, sea
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