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Beginning of October, 1954, Calais, Pas-de-Calais:

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

Summary:

The regional newspaper La Voix du Nord published on October 8, 1954, an article claiming that at the exit of the harbor of Calais, the ship "Veland" which had brought a cargo of ore, had "almost created a nocturnal hallucination."

In fact, its dark fireplace surrounded by a bright red circle of "luminous paint" could have, in the distance and in the dark, created a misinterpretation.

Reports:

[Ref. lvn1:] NEWSPAPER "LA VOIX DU NORD":

IT WAS NOT A FLYING SAUCER!

At the exit of the harbor of Calais, the ship "Veland" which had brought a cargo of ore, nearly created a nocturnal hallucination: its chimney is, indeed, surrounded by a circle of bright red color which is a luminous painting...

At night... this gleam shines on the sky and from far away, including the Faidherbes and George V bridges, it looked like a little ring of ruby suddenly immobilized above the ship, since the rest of the chimney remained in the dark!

Explanations:

Map.

This is a "negative case" since neither the witness nor any ufologist thought it was really a flying saucer.

We understand that a certain journalist saw this and found here an opportunity both to amuse the readers, and to offer a possible explanation of "saucers"; which is not useless.

But I was unable to find any photos of the famous freighter, unfortunately.

Keywords:

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

Calais, Pas-de-Calais, harbor, cargo, Veland, negative, chimney, fluorescent, sea

Sources:

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Document history:

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