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Reference for this case: Beg-Oct-54-Cissac.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
In a general catalog of sighting reports of the Gironde written by the Bordeaux section of the C.F.R.U., published in the ufology magazine Ouranos in the fourth quarter of 1973, it is said that according to the Sud-Ouest newspaper for October 8, 1954, the following observation occurred:
Before that October 8, 1954, therefore, at 08:30 p.m., in Cissac, Miss Ducasse, Mr. Couty and other witnesses saw a red incandescent disc quite far towards Carcan, in the Southwest. There would have been "several minutes of maneuvers", then a descent towards the horizon, accompanied by a reddish trail.
I found a very brief mention of this report in the regional newspaper Le Journal de Biarritz et de la Côte Basque for October 8, 1954, which stated that two residents of Cissac, Miss Ducasse and Mr. Couty, "saw a flying saucer."
[Ref. jbz1:] JOURNAL "LE JOURNAL DE BIARRITZ":
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We announced yesterday the discovery in ESCOUT near Oloron, of a mysterious balloon attached to a kind of kite.
This balloon was transported from the Oloron gendarmerie to the gendarmerie company in Pau. The latter passed it on to the military subdivision.
According to initial observations, it seems to be a device used by air bases for radar detection exercises.
FROM MELON TO BANANA
Mrs. Monnier, living in the Château de Biron, near Monpazier (Dordogne), observed an orange ball the size of a small melon from which emerged a sort of cigar.
Mr. Jean Dubreuilh, a bank employee in Blaye, who was in the company of his wife, saw in the sky, just above the train station, a luminous banana giving off an orange glow.
Two residents of Cissac, Miss Ducasse and Mr. Couty, saw a flying saucer.
A SUPPOSED MARTIAN IN HAUTE-MARNE
Chaumont. -- Mr. André Narcy, a roadmender in Mertrud (Haute-Marne) claims to have seen, in the middle of a field, a strange machine, a kind of spherical saucer ten meters in diameter, into which a little man about 1.20 m tall rushed.
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[Ref. ous1:] UFOLOGY MAGAZINE "OURANOS":
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Before October 8, 1954 08:30 p.m. Cissac BA V3 Axe 5
Witnesses: Miss Ducasse, Mr. Couty and other witnesses.
Incandescent red disc rather distant in the direction of Carcan (S.W.). Several minutes of evolution, then descent to the horizon, accompanied by a reddish trail.
S.O. October 8, 54
[Ref. ufa1:] UFOLOGY BULLETIN "UFOLOGIA":
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BEFORE 08 OCTOBER 1954 8:30 p.m. Cissac BA/V 3
Witnesses: several including Miss DUCASSE and ... COUTY. Incandescent red disc quite far in the direction of CARCANS (SW.) Several minutes of displacement, then descent towards the horizon accompanied by a reddish trail.
(S.O. October 8, 1954)
Note: "HA" stands for "High Altitude"; "V 2" stands for "bad observation", a report for which it is difficult to rule out a misinterpretation.
[Ref. gep1:] UFOLOGY GROUP "GEPO":
| 10/7/54 | 08:30 p.m. | Cissac | 107V31 | T07 |
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The report is quite poor; but the "disc" was probable a meteor.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Cissac, Gironde, night, Ducasse, Couty, multiple, disc, red, incandescent, distant, direction, duration, maneuver, descent, horizon, trail, reddish
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| Version: | Created/Changed by: | Date: | Change Description: |
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| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | December 25, 2018 | First published. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | April 1, 2022 | Addition [gep1]. |
| 1.2 | Patrick Gross | May 23, 2022 | Addition [ufa1]. |
| 1.3 | Patrick Gross | August 31, 2025 | Addition [jbz1]. In the Summary, addition of the information from [jbz1]. |
