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January 4, 1954, Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône:

Reference for this case: 4-Jan-54-Arles.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Summary:

In the 2010s, a German web-based UFO sightings database indicated that there was a sighting of the "close encounter of the 2nd kind" on January 4, 1954 at 9:00 p.m. in Arles in France.

Neither source nor details were given.

Reports:

[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
19540104			04.01.1954		Arles	France	09.00 p.m.	CE II

Explanations:

Totally insufficient information.

It is possible that this record actually refers to the famous case of Marignage near there at the same date, or the case in Saint-Martin-de-Crau on January 5, 1954.

Keywords:

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

Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, night

Sources:

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

[ubk1] Online database UFO-Datenbank, Germany, found in 2016, at ufodatenbank.de

Document history:

Version:	Created/Changed by:	Date:	Change Description:
1.0	Patrick Gross	November 23, 2016	First published.
1.1	Patrick Gross	January 4, 2020	Addition of the Summary.

This page was last updated on January 4, 2020.