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October 14, 1954, Saint Raphaël, Var:

Reference for this case: 14-Oct-54-Saint-Raphaël.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Summary:

The regional newspaper Nice Matin for October 16, 1954, mentioned that "a machine almost similar, the same without doubt" that the one seen in Biot had been seen almost at the same hour above Saint-Raphael, among other places.

Jimmy Guieu told in his 1956 book that "the flying saucer that landed near Biot on October 14, 1954 at 06:15 p.m. was seen crisscrossing the sky by a crowd of people, especially in Saint-Raphael."

Reports:

[Ref. nmn1:] NEWSPAPER "NICE-MATIN":

and here are the "flying saucers" in the sky of Midi!...

[...]

Almost at the same time, a similar machine (the same one undoubtedly) was seen above Grasse, Saint Raphael, Opio, Gourdon, Bar-sur-Loup and Roquebrune-Cape-Martin.

[...]

[Ref. jgu1:] JIMMY GUIEU:

The author indicates that the flying saucer that landed close to Biot on October 14, 1954 at 18:15 was seen furrowing the skies by a crowd of people, in Saint-Raphaël, among other places.

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

The two authors indicate that on October 14, 1954, in St Raphaël in the department of the Var, shortly after 06:15 p.m., an object was observed in the sky.

[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:

Luc Chastan indicates in his database that in the Var in St Raphaël on October 14, 1954 "Little after eighteen hour fifteen observation of an object in the sky."

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

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

This database recorded this case twice:

Case Nr.	New case Nr.	Investigator	Date of observation	Zip	Place of observation	Country of observation	Hour of observation	Classification	Comments	Identification
19541014			14.10.1954		St. Raphael	France	06.15 p.m.	NL
19541014			14.10.1954		St. Raphael	France	06.15 p.m.	NL

Explanations:

The meteor that day at 06:15 p.m.

Keywords:

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

Saint Raphaël, Var, evening, object, sky

Sources:

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

[nmn1] Article in the regional newspaper Nice Matin, Nice, France, October 16, 1954.
[jgu1] "Black-Out sur les Soucoupes Volantes", book by Jimmy Guieu, Fleuve Noir publisher, France, page 219, 1956./
[jgu1] "Black-Out sur les Soucoupes Volantes", book by Jimmy Guieu, Omnium Littéraire publisher, France, page 219, 1969./
[fru1] "OVNI, Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochées en France", book by Michel Figuet and Jean Louis Ruchon, Alain Lefeuvre publisher, France, page 161, 1979.
[lcn1] Base OVNI France, website by Luc Chastan, France, circa 2006, at baseovnifrance.free.fr/detobs.php?numobs=990
[ubk1] Online database UFO-Datenbank, Germany, found in 2016, at ufodatenbank.de

Document history:

Version:	Created/Changed by:	Date:	Change Description:
0.1	Patrick Gross	May 8, 2005	First published.
1.0	Patrick Gross	April 8, 2009	Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Addition [lcn1].
1.1	Patrick Gross	February 23, 2017	Addition [ubk1].
1.2	Patrick Gross	July 14, 2019	Addition of the Summary.

This page was last updated on July 14, 2019.