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The 1954 French flap:

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Unknown date, 1954, unknown place, unknown department:

Reference for this case: 54-bbr1.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Reports:

[Ref. bbr1:] GERARD BARTHEL AND JACQUES BRUCKER:

The two authors indicate, in order to illustrate their opinion on the poor content of the saucer reports in the press, the following extract of which they indicate that the source is the newspaper La Dépêche in 1954:

"Luminous white fulguration, south-north, leaving a visible trail 4 seconds."

The two authors either are unaware of or do not indicate the date of publication of this newspaper article.

Explanations:

Probable meteor.

Keywords:

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Luminous, white, flash, trail, duration

Sources:

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

• [----] Article in the newspaper La Dépêche, France, 1954.
• [bbr1] "La Grande Peur Martienne", book by Gérard Barthel and Jacques Brucker, Les nouvelles Editions Rationalistes publisher, France, page 139, 1979.

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