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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.
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.
[Ref. aup1:] NEWSPAPER "L'AUVERGNAT DE PARIS":
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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.
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.
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(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Ussel, Corrèze, anonymous, craft, saucer, meteor
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