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October 14, 1954, Chevigny-en-Valière, Côte-d'Or:

Reference for this case: 14-Oct-54-Chevigny-en-Valière.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Summary:

Jacques Vallée and others, speaking of the observation of October 14, 1954, in Meursanges, told that there was exactly the same observation at the same time, thus around 06:30 p.m., by a witness in Chevigny-en-Valière, next to the group of trees where the phenomenon of Meursanges reportedly disappeared, and east-southeast of Meursanges.

Only one source as far as I know gave a contemporary origin to the case; it would have appeared in the newspaper Le Bien Public for October 16-17, 1954.

Reports:

[Ref. jve3:] JACQUES VALLEE:

Jacques Vallée says that M. and Mme. Vitre, grocers on the Place Madeleine in Beaune, had just left the village of Meursanges in the Cote d'Or to go home by car. They had driven only a few hundred yards on Route D-111 when they noted through the window a luminous object flying at high speed. They quickly left their car and called to the people at a nearby farm, and together they watched the maneuvers of the object.

Vallée says their description is fascinating when we recall such a case as that of Frasne, two days earlier, or many others that are as good as identical.

They said that "The object stopped for an instant, came down slowly, balancing and changing color, throwing out yellow, orange and violet beams, and then resumed its course and disappeared behind the trees of a wood."

Next to this group of trees, and east-south-east of Meursanges, in the village of Chevigny-en-Valiere, another witness described the Meursanges object, seen at the same time.

Still farther to the east-southeast in the village of Palleau, four miles in a straight line from Meursanges and 2.5 miles from Chevigny, at the same moment M. Begin, farmer at Chevigny, saw passing overhead a round, green, luminous object crossing the sky at high speed.

Jacques Vallée says that these observations from Meursanges, Chevigny and Palleau deserve special attention: first, though the witnesses at Chevigny and at Palleau knew one another quite well as both lived in the tiny village of Chevigny, they gave different accounts: the witness at Palleau, farther east, only saw "a green ball in rapid movement," while the one at Chevigny reported a complicated spectacle: slowing down, stopping, a "dead-leaf" descent, and a profusion of varied colors.

Second, whereas the two well-acquainted witnesses described quite different phenomena, those who did not know each other, those at Meursanges and the one at Chevigny, described exactly the same sight, and these two reports that are in agreement were from people only a few miles apart.

[Ref. ldl2:] "LUMIERES DANS LA NUIT" UFOLOGY MAGAZINE:

[Ref. aml5:] AIME MICHEL:

[Ref. jve5:] JACQUES VALLEE:

[Ref. fru1:] MICHEL FIGUET AND JEAN-LOUIS RUCHON:

The two authors indicate that in Chevigny-en-Valière in the department of Côtes-d'Or, on October 14, 1954, at 06:30 p.m., a person who was beside the wood which is near this village observed a luminous object.

[Ref. via1:] "VIMANA 21" UFOLOGY MAGAZINE:

[Ref. via3:] UFOLOGY BULLETIN "VIMANA 21":

This magazine listed this case:

[Ref. lhh1:] LARRY HATCH - "*U* COMPUTER DATABASE":

[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:

Luc Chastan indicates in his database that in the "Côte d'or" in Chevigny en Valière on October 14, 1954 at 18:30 hours, "a witness, located beside the wood, close to the village, observed a luminous object."

The source is noted: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet... by Figuet M./ Ruchon J.L. ** Alain Lefeuvre pub. 1979".

[Ref. rbt1:] "LA GAZETTE DE COTE-D'OR" NEWSPAPER:

The author indicates that on October 14, 1954, a witness who was within more than 3 kilometers of the place of the observation of Meursanges, affirms to have seen the same phenomenon exactly at the same hour in Chevigny-en-Valière.

[Ref. nip1:] "THE NICAP WEBSITE":

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

This database recorded this case 3 times:

Explanations:

Probably the 06:15 p.m. meteor that day.

Keywords:

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

Chevigny-en-Valière, Côtes-d'Or, Meursanges, forest, object, luminous

Sources:

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

• [----] Article in the regional newspaper Le Bien Public, Dijon, France, October 16-17, 1954.
• [jve3] "Anatomy of a Phenomenon", book by Jacques Vallee, Henry Regnery publisher, USA, 1965.
• [ldl2] Ufology magazine Lumières Dans La Nuit (LDLN), France, #77, page 3, September /October 1965.
• [aml5] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes: Les Données du Problème", article by Aimé Michel, in the ufology magazine Lumières Dans La Nuit (LDLN), France, #84, page 9, September / October 1966.
• [jve3] "Anatomy of a Phenomenon", book by Jacques Vallee, Neville Spearman publishers, U-K., 1966.
• [jve5] "Catalogue préliminaire de 500 observations", listing in "Les Phénomènes Insolites de l'Espace", book by Jacques and Janine Vallée, Table Ronde publishers, France, 1966.
• [jve3] "Anatomy of a Phenomenon", book by Jacques Vallee, Tandem publishers, U-K., page 157, 1974.
• [jve5] "Catalogue préliminaire de 500 observations", listing in "Les Phénomènes Insolites de l'Espace", book by Jacques and Janine Vallée, Robert Laffont publisher, France, page 250, 1978.
• [fru1] "OVNI, Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochées en France", book by Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, Alain Lefeuvre publisher, France, 1979.
• [via1] "Catalogue départemental des observations OVNI", catalog in the ufology magazine Vimana 21, ADRUP ufology group, Dijon, France, #17, page 16, 4^th quarter 1984.
• [via3] "Listing fichier ADRUP", in the ufology magazine Vimana 21. ADRUP, France, #17, 4^th quarter 1984.
• [lhh1] "*U* Computer Database", database by Larry Hatch, USA, circa 2002.
• [lcn1] Base OVNI France, website by Luc Chastan, France, circa 2006, at baseovnifrance.free.fr/detobs.php?numobs=996
• [rbt1] "A la une - OVNI: mythe ou réalité?", article by Roald Billebault in the newspaper La Gazette de Côte-d'Or, France, May 10, 2007.
• [nip1] List on The NICAP Website, USA, found in 2014, at http://www.nicap.org/reports/1954_ufocat.htm
• [ubk1] Online database UFO-Datenbank, Germany, found in 2016, at ufodatenbank.de

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