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October 13, 1954, Romans-sur-Isère, Drôme:

Reference for this case: 13-Oct-54-Romans-sur-Isère.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Summary:

In his 1958 book on the French wave of 1954, pionneer ufologist Aimé Michel told that on October 13, 1954, three out of nine sihtings were on y astright line, inclusing a case at "Romans".

The two other cases help to find out that it was Romans-sur-Isère, in the drôme department.

Reports:

[Ref. aml1:] AIME MICHEL:

Reporting on the cases of October 13, 1954, which would be 9 according to him, Aimé Michel indicates that only two are aligned with a third, at Romans.

Aimé Michel gave no source and no other information on that case.

[Ref. gqy1:] GUY QUINCY:

October 13 [, 1954]

[... other cases...]

? [=unknown hour]: Romans (Ain): lumin.obj.

[... other cases...]

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

Case Nr.	New case Nr.	Investigator	Date of observation	Zip	Place of observation	Country of observation	Hour of observation	Classification	Comments	Identification
19541013			13.10.1954		Romans Isere	France

Explanations:

So all I have was "Romans" and "October 13, 1954" and the information that the place is in line with the cases of Cortevaix and Trévoux. Thus:

To note that Cortevaix occurred on the 12th, not the 13th, and that whereas Michel said there were 9 cases on the 13th, I counted 14 cases so far with that date, plus 3 that are at that date or on the nearest date, plus dozend where only the month, October, is known to me.

Of course the conclusion for this case for now can only be "Uncertain date, totally insufficient information."

Keywords:

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

Romans-sur-Isère, Drôme

Sources:

[----] indicates sources that are not yet available to me.

[aml1] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Arthaud publisher, France, 1958.
[aml1] "Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery", book by Aimé Michel, English version of "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", S.G. Phillips publisher, USA, 1958.
[gqy1] "Observations 1954", monograph by Guy Quincy, France - Algeria, private publication, page 16, the 1950's.
[aml1] "A Propos des Soucoupes Volantes - Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, reprint of "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", Planète publishers, France, page 207, 1966.
[aml1] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Seghers publisher, France, page 227, 1977.
[aml1] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Robert Laffont publisher, France, page 227, 1978.
[ubk1] Online database UFO-Datenbank, Germany, found in 2016, at ufodatenbank.de

Document history:

Version:	Created/Changed by:	Date:	Change Description:
1.0	Patrick Gross	July 24, 2019	First published.
1.1	Patrick Gross	February 1, 2021	Addition [ubk1].
1.2	Patrick Gross	May 9, 2022	Addition [gqy1].

This page was last updated on May 9, 2022.