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October 2, 1954, Mauperthuis, Seine-et-Marne:

Reference for this case: 2-Oct-54-Mauperthuis.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Summary:

A summary of an observation in Mauperthuis was published in Radar magazine on October 17, 1954, stating that Mr. Bénard, a builder-contractor at Mauperthuis, was preparing to close his workplace when his wife Georgette and their neighbor, Thérèse Pannetier, called saying that there is "a red ball in the sky, coming from the East!" It "disappears 4' later".

Ufologist Aimé Michel, in 1958, cited Mr. Bénard among the witnesses, which is not sure, gave the date as October 2, 1954, and said that what was seen was a red disk that crossed the sky following the horizon from east to west.

Reports:

[Ref. rdr1:] "RADAR" MAGAZINE:

MAUPERTHUIS

[Photo caption:] Mrs Bénard, left, and Pannetier.

Bénard, Mason-entrepreneur in Mauperthuis close to Coulommiers, is on the point of closing his construction site. Suddenly his wife Georgette and their neighbor, Thérèse Pannetier, call him: "A red ball in the sky, coming from the East!" It disappears 4' later.

[Ref. aml1:] AIME MICHEL:

French ufologist Aimé Michel indicates that on October 2, 1954, in Mauperthuis near Coulommiers, three witnesses, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard and Mrs. Pannetier saw "a red disc crossing the sky following the line of the horizon from the East to the West."

[Ref. gqy1:] GUY QUINCY:

Saturday October 2 [, 1954]

[...other cases...]

: Mauperthuis (Seine-et-Marne):lum.sph.

[...other cases...]

[Ref. jve5:] JACQUES VALLEE:

176

-003.03900

48.77100

1954

MAUPERTHUIS

151

C**

185

[Ref. pis1:] UFOLOGY BULLETIN "PHENOMENES INCONNUS":

In this ufology bulletin, Alain Barbe published a map with cases (but not all the 61 cases or more) for October 2, 1954, including that of Mauperthuis, which he, like Aimé Michel did, thooght to often be "aligned" beyond mere chance:

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

3901: 1954/10/02 00:00 1 3:02:20 E 48:46:20 N 3331 WEU FRN S&M 8:7

MAUPERTHUIS,FR:SCR ON TRIPOD:GREEN RAY FREEZES TRUCKER+RIDER:big RDR Stn here

Ref#107 WILKINS,Harold: F.S. UNCENSORED Page No. 56 : FARMLANDS

Note: there is nothing on this case in "Flying Saucers Uncensored", the Harold T. Wilkins book.

[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:

Luc Chastan indicates in his database that in the Seine-et-Marne in Mauperthuis on October 2, 1954, at an unknown hour, three witnesses see "a red disc crossing the sky while following the horizon from East to west."

The source is indicated as "M.O.C. by Michel Aimé ** Arthaud 1958".

[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
19541002			02.10.1954		Mauperthuis	France	17.00	DD

Explanations:

The case is poorly documented since there is no precise hour, no date confirmation in a contemporary documentation, a very meager description with a "ball" for Radar and a "disc" for Aimé Michel.

So, it is impossible for me to know whether this was an extraterrestrial craft, an airplane, or a meteor, for example.

Keywords:

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

Mauperthuis, Seine-et-Marne, Bénard, Georgette Bénard, Bernard, Thérèse Pannetier, multiple, disc, red, ball, duration

Sources:

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

[rdr1] Article in Radar magazine, Paris, France, page 5, October 17, 1954.
[aml1] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Arthaud publisher, France, 1958.
[aml1] "Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery", book by Aimé Michel, English version of "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", S.G. Phillips publisher, USA, 1958.
[gqy1] "Observations 1954", monograph by Guy Quincy, France - Algeria, private publication, page 10, the 1950's.
[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.
[aml1] "A Propos des Soucoupes Volantes - Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, reprint of "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", Planète publisher, France, 1966.
[pis1] "Du nouveau sur l'orthothénie?", article by Alain Barbe, in the ufology bulletin Phénomènes Inconnus, C.F.R.S, France, #14, pages 17,18, 1971.
[aml1] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Seghers publisher, France, page 152, 1977.
[aml1] "Mystérieux Objets Célestes", book by Aimé Michel, Robert Laffont publisher, France, page 152, 1978.
[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 249, 1978.
[lhh1] "*U* Computer Database", database by Larry Hatch, USA, circa 2002.
[lcn1] Base OVNI France, website by Luc Chastan, France, circa 2005, at baseovnifrance.free.fr/detobs.php?numobs=491
[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	October 23, 2004	First published.
1.0	Patrick Gross	February 27, 2009	Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Additions [lcn1].
1.1	Patrick Gross	June 19, 2010	Addition [jve5].
1.2	Patrick Gross	February 12, 2017	Addition [ubk1].
1.3	Patrick Gross	June 22, 2019	Addition [lhh1].
1.4	Patrick Gross	October 4, 2019	Addition [pis1].
1.5	Patrick Gross	April 6, 2022	Addition [gqy1].

This page was last updated on April 6, 2022.