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Reference for this case: Beg-Oct-54-Châteauroux.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
The very "skeptical" national newspaper Libération for October 11, 1954, reported among other observations that in Châteauroux, Mr. Rabant had heard the whistling sound "of a gray craft hovering at an altitude of 100 meters".
[Ref. lin1:] NEWSPAPER "LIBERATION":
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No Sunday truce for saucer observatories and other watchers of flying crockery. At least, a few defections are being recorded among the "uranide" interlocutors—those Martians who may be from elsewhere: The two "strange beings" seen by a Basque man in a field in the Basses-Pyrénées turned out to be purely mythical, as the witness had to admit.
But the mystery continues to thrive on numerous testimonies from north to south, from Calais, where a motorist nearly collided with a huge blue disc taking off from a field without warning; to Quimper, where an orange sphere skimmed just above a fishing family; to Châteauroux, where Mr. Rabant heard the whistling of a gray craft hovering at an altitude of 100 meters; to Liège, where the royal observatory decided to open an investigation; and even to Alexandria, Egypt, where the control tower at the Muhza airfield leisurely tracked the movements of a primitive-type saucer for an hour.
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Insufficient information, probable helicopter.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Châteauroux, Indre, Rabant, whistling, craft, grey, hovering, low
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