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October 3, 1954, Saint-Maixent, Deux-Sèvres:

Reference for this case: 3-Oct-54-Saint-Maixent.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Summary:

In the 1950s, a French archivist, Guy Quincy, interested in the question of the "flying saucers," compiled a very summarized catalog of sightings in France, without source references.

One of the recorded cases was that on October 3, 1954, at 11:15 p.m., in Saint-Maixent-l'Eglise in the Deux-Sèvres (now Saint-Maixent-l'Ecole), a luminous object was seen.

Reports:

[Ref. gqy1:] GUY QUINCY:

October 3 [, 1954]

[... other cases...]

ab.sam.h? [than 11:15 p.m.]: Saint-Maixent-l'Eglise (Deux-Sèvres): lum. obj. ?

[... other cases...]

Explanations:

Keywords:

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

Saint-Maixent, Deux-Sèvres, object, luminous, night

Sources:

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

[gqy1] "Observations 1954", monograph by Guy Quincy, France - Algeria, private publication, page 11, the 1950's.

Document history:

Version:	Created/Changed by:	Date:	Change Description:
1.0	Patrick Gross	August 13, 2025	First published, [gqy1].

This page was last updated on August 13, 2025.