ACUFO:

ACUFO is my comprehensive catalog of cases of encounters between aircraft and UFOs, whether they are “explained” or “unexplained”.

The ACUFO catalog is made of case files with a case number, summary, quantitative information (date, location, number of witnesses...), classifications, all sources mentioning the case with their references, a discussion of the case in order to evaluate its causes, and a history of the changes made to the file.

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Around Rouvres, France, between 1939 and 1945:

Case number:

ACUFO-1939-00-00-ROUVRES-1

Summary:

The Japanese ufology magazine UFO Researcher, of the ufology group “Sky People”, in their Volume 17, No. 1, of 2007, published the photo below, among other alleged UFO photos they said they found:

The caption of this image told that it shows a formation of British Hawker “Hurricane” fighter planes during World War II, and “a vertical elliptical shape between the clouds”, and that the photo came from “The Showa Story of 100 Million People.”

I show below in this file that the photo was taken in France between 1939 and 1940, that it shows “Hurricanes” based at Rouvres, and that the “vertical elliptical shape” was only a fault or a stain on the print.

Data:

Temporal data:

Date:	Between 1939 and 1945
Time:	Day.
Duration:	N/A
First known report date:	2007
Reporting delay:	6 decades.

Geographical data:

Country:	France
State/Department:	Eure-et-Loir
City or place:	Around Rouvres.

Witnesses data:

Number of alleged witnesses:	0
Number of known witnesses:	0
Number of named witnesses:	0

Ufology data:

Reporting channel:	Japanese ufology magazine.
Visibility conditions:	Day.
UFO observed:	No.
UFO arrival observed:	N/A.
UFO departure observed:	N/A.
UFO action:	N/A.
Witnesses action:	N/A.
Photographs:	Yes.
Sketch(s) by witness(es):	N/A.
Sketch(es) approved by witness(es):	N/A.
Witness(es) feelings:	N/A.
Witnesses interpretation:	N/A.

Classifications:

Sensors:	[ ] Visual: [ ] Airborne radar: [ ] Directional ground radar: [ ] Height finder ground radar: [X] Photo: 1. [ ] Film/video: [ ] EM Effects: [ ] Failures: [ ] Damages:
Hynek:	DD
Armed / unarmed:	?
Reliability 1-3:	2
Strangeness 1-3:	1
ACUFO:	Photograph print fault or stain.

Sources:

[Ref. urr1:] UFOLOGY MAGAZINE "UFO RESEARCHER":

- This time it's empty [?]

A formation of Hawker Hurricane fighter planes, the main British combat aircraft during the Second World War, and a vertical elliptical shape between the clouds. Excerpt from “The Showa Story of 100 Million People.”

Aircraft information:

The Hawker «Hurricane» was a fighter plane of the Royal Air Force which was widely in operations at that time.

Discussion:

The source indicated by [urr1] is not a ufology source. “Showa History of 100 Million - people Complete History of Showa 1926-1989”, is a History book by Professor Takafusa Nakamura of the University of Tokyo, published by the University of Tokyo Press, Japan, on April 15, 1998. The work examines the events and historical forces that shaped the century and the effects they had on ordinary Japanese citizens, during the “Showa” era, ie.e the era of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of Emperor Showa from December 25, 1926, until his death on January 7, 1989.

It contains numerous photos, but I do not have the full book and certainly cannot confirm that a photo of Hurricane planes over France appeared it it.

The so-called vertical elliptical shape on the photo is a fault in the print of the photo, or a stain over the page it was printed on.

Indeed, another print of the photo exists, of better quality, and its shows no vertical elliptical shape there.

The photo was taken by Stanley Arthur Devon (1907–1995), Royal Air Force official photographer, it is titled “Royal Air Force in France, 1939-1940”, and its caption indicates it shows six Hurricane Mark I of No. 73 Squadron of the R.A.F, “based at Rouvres, France, flying in loose echelon formation”, with the date “between 1939 and 1940.”

The photo (below) is now (2024) in the public domain and is appearing on Wikimedia Commons at https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Royal_Air_Force_in_France,_1939-1940._C1291.jpg

Evaluation:

Photograph print fault or stain.

Sources references:

* = Source is available to me.
? = Source I am told about but could not get so far. Help needed.

[urr1] * Ufology magazine UFO Researcher, of the ufology group "Sky People", Japan, Volume 17, No, 1, page 38, 2007.

File history:

Authoring:

Main author:	Patrick Gross
Contributors:	None
Reviewers:	None
Editor:	Patrick Gross

Changes history:

Version:	Create/changed by:	Date:	Description:
0.1	Patrick Gross	July 22, 2024	Creation, [urr1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	July 22, 2024	First published.

This page was last updated on July 22, 2024.