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End of September or beginning of October, 1954, Ussel, Corrèze:

Reference number for this case: End-Sep-Beg-Oct-54-Ussel. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Summary:

The newspaper L'Auvergnat de Paris for October 16, 1954, reported on page 4 that a resident of Murat had seen, in the region of Ussel, "a mysterious craft crossing the sky". The newspaper wondered whether it was a flying saucer or a meteor.

Reports:

[Ref. aup1:] NEWSPAPER "L'AUVERGNAT DE PARIS":

A Murat resident saw, in the region of Ussel, a mysterious craft crossing the sky... a flying saucer? Meteor?

Last week the sky of Murat was the scene of a veritable cavalcade of jet planes, circulating in all directions.

Explanations:

Totally insufficient information.

The jet planes in the sky of Murat mentionned in [aup1] were NATO joint maneuvers called "Opération Etoile Filante", started at the end of Septembre 1954, and cause of some misinterpretations.

Keywords:

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Ussel, Corrèze, anonymous, craft, saucer, meteor

Sources:

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

[aup1] Article in the newspaper L'Auvergnat de Paris, Paris, France, page 4, October 16, 1954.

Document history:

Version:	Created/Changed by:	Date:	Change Description:
1.0	Patrick Gross	January 27, 2021	First published.

This page was last updated on January 27, 2021.