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October 14, 1954, Tourves, Var:

Reference for this case: 14-Oct-54-Tourves.
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Summary:

The regional newspaper Le Méridional for October 15, 1954, indicated by its press correspondent in Tourves, that Mr. Maurice Brémond and Mr. Henri Ollivier, living in Tourves, in the Var, had seen the day before at 6 p.m. approximately, a craft having the shape of a flying saucer, about 1,000 meters above the ground, and heading towards Marseille.

Sparks burst from the "saucer," the newspaper said.

Reports:

[Ref. lml1:] NEWSPAPER "LE MERIDIONAL":

Two witnesses saw a saucer in Tourves (Var)

TOURVES (C.P.). -- Misters Maurice Brémond and Henri Ollivier, resident of Tourves, in the Var, saw in the evening of yesterday, at approximately 6 p.m., a craft having the shape of a flying saucer, at approximately 1.000 meters of altitude, and moving towards Marseilles. Sparks spouted out of the "saucer."

Rest of the article about other sightings available here.

[Ref. uda1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:

The website indicates that on 14 October 1954 at 18:00 in Tourves, France, "An unidentified object was sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. One object was observed."

The source is indicated as "Vallee, Jacques, Computerized Catalog (N = 3073)".

[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
19541014			14.10.1954		Tourves	France	18.00	NL

Explanations:

The 06:13 p.m. meteor of that day.

Keywords:

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Tourves, Var, Maurice Brémond, Henri Ollivier, craft, saucer, sparks

Sources:

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

[lml1] Article in the regional newspaper Le Méridional, page 6, October 15, 1954.
[uda1] "14 Oct 1954 - Tourves, France", web page at the UFOdna website, circa 2007, at www.ufodna.com/uf02/uf2/022858.htm
[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	April 11, 2006	First published.
1.0	Patrick Gross	April 8, 2009	Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Additions [uda1].
1.1	Patrick Gross	February 27, 2017	Addition [ubk1].
1.2	Patrick Gross	July 14, 2019	Addition of the Summary.

This page was last updated on July 14, 2019.