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Reference for this case: 21-Oct-54-Longeville-lès-Saint-Avold.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
The regional newspaper Le Républicain Lorrain for October 24, 1954, reported that "Thursday", thus on October 21, 1954, around 7 p.m., Eugène Braun, from Saint-Avold, was returning from Paris by car when near Longeville-lès-Saint-Avold, on the national road, near Trois-Maisons, his attention was attracted by a multitude of luminous "balls", arranged symmetrically and concentrically, in a field some 200 meters away from the road.
He observed that it was balls of yellow, green, red, etc., which lit up, and, after the car passed, went out.
[Ref. rln1:] NEWSPAPER "LE REPUBLICAIN LORRAIN":
SAINT-AVOLD. -- Thursday evening, around 7 p.m. Mr. Eugène Braun, from St-Avold, was returning from Paris by car when, near Longeville-St-Avold, on the national road, near Trois-Maisons, his attention was attracted by a multitude of luminous "balls", arranged symmetrically and concentrically, in a field some 200 m. of the road. Intrigued, the motorist observed the phenomenon: balls of yellow, green, red, etc., lit up and, after the passage of the car, went out. The witness [...remaining text missing...]
[Ref. jsr1:] JEAN SIDER:
French ufologist Jean Sider discovered the case of October 21, 07:00 P.M., in Longeville-lès-St. Avold, in the department of the Moselle, in an article of the newspaper Le Républicain Lorrain for October 24, 1954.
Eugene Braun, a resident of St Avold, was returning from Paris by car. On the national road, mear "Trois-Maisons", his attention was drawn by a multitude of luminous balls laid out symmetrically and concentrically in a field at approximately 20O meters of the road. These balls were of various colors: yellow, green, red. They lighted when the car passed by and extincted afterwards. If they were the headlights of a saucer, supposed the witness, it has to be an enormous one. The witness preferred to continue his travel whereas the machine did not seem yet to have taken off.
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It may well be a misinterpretation, but I do not see what would fit to to the multiplicity of colors.
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Longeville-lès-Saint-Avold, Moselle, Eugène Braun, car, road, field, night, balls, luminous, yellow, green, red
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