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The 1954 French flap:

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September 26, 1954, Challes-les-Eaux, Savoie:

Reference for this case: 26-Sep-54-Challes-les-Eaux.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Summary:

The case begins with a line from the computer catalog of Jacques Vallée, in the 1970s, suggesting that on September 26, 1954 at 5:15 p.m. there was a sighting in Challes, France.

Then, according to the catalog established by the American Larry Hatch in the 2000s, the case comes from the book "The UFO Enigma - Challenge to Science" by Jacques Vallée, published in 1966, and it would be a case of September 26, 1954 at 5:20 p.m., in Challes, Savoie, France, with a humanoid observed waddling rapidly towards a saucer, and a "circle" was found.

It is then the American Donald Johnson who in the years 2000 indicates that on this day, "Minutes after a sighting above a local radio station a short humanoid in a diver suit was seen by a Mr. Guyard at the Challes Airport. The being wadded quickly toward and got into a saucer-shaped craft. A ten foot circle was found at the landing site."

He gives as a source, this time, Aime Michel's 1958 book.

But whereas there is indeed a story in Challes on September 26, 1954, with one named "Guyard" in Aimé Michel's book, his story has really, really, nothing to do with the above. Michel wrote:

A few days later [than the Croix du Nivolet affair] M. Michel Guyard, chief pilot at the Challes-les-Eaux airfield (three and a half miles south of the Croix du Nivolet) reported that at the same time as the Col du Chat sighting he thought he had seen a flying saucer, but had identified it as a flock of starlings in flight. Everybody was satisfied with such a reassuring explanation, given by such a well-qualified person.

Reports:

[Ref. jve5:] JACQUES VALLEE:

[Ref. gep1:] UFOLOGY GROUP "GEPO":

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

[Ref. djn1:] DONALD JOHNSON:

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

[Ref. tai1:] "THINK ABOUT IT" WEBSITE:

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

This database recorded the case 8 times:

Explanations:

There is no mention at all of this case in "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", the French version, and "Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery", the Engish version of the book by Aimé Michel, and I was unable to find even a single other source for this case.

What appears in Michel's book is:

It is therefore clear that the American ufologists were totally confused, I do not know how, and that this case of "close encounter of the third kind" simply never took place.

Keywords:

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

Challes, Challes-les-Eaux, Savoie, humanoid, occupant, diving suit, Guyard, Challes, airport, quick, walking, saucer, craft, object, landing, traces, circle

Sources:

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

• [----] "Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery", book by Aimé Michel, S.G. Philipps publisher, USA, page 81, 1958.
• [jve5] "Catalogue préliminaire de 500 observations", listing in "Les Phénomènes Insolites de l'Espace", book by Jacques and Jannine Vallée, Table Ronde publisher, France, 1966.
• [jve5] "Catalogue préliminaire de 500 observations", listing in "Les Phénomènes Insolites de l'Espace", book by Jacques and Jannine Vallée, Robert Laffont publisher, France, page 248, 1978.
• [gep1] "Catalogue mondial des observations - Fichier OVNI GEPO Pasqualini 1954, list, in the ufology bulletin GEPO Informations, ufology group GEPO, France, #16, 1^st quarter, 1981.
• [lhh1] "*U* Computer Database", database by Larry Hatch, USA, circa 2002.
• [djn1] "Encounters With Aliens On This Day", written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D., compiled from the UFOCAT 2003 computer database, USA, www.ufocat.com.
• [nip1] List on The NICAP Website, USA, found in 2014, at http://www.nicap.org/reports/1954_ufocat.htm
• [tai1] "1954: September Sightings", catalog on the UFO website Think About It, USA, not dated, found in 2014, at http://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/4-1954-august-september-sightings
• [ubk1] Online database UFO-Datenbank, Germany, found in 2016, at ufodatenbank.de

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