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Reference for this case: Mid-Oct-54-Balleure.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
The regional newspaper Le Courrier de Saône-et-Loire for October 22, 1954, reported among other sightings that in Balleure, "it is said" that "a cart axle was seen flying, which, after a little journey around the area, came back to land at its starting point. Fortunately, no one was there to get it on the head..."
[Ref. csl1:] NEWSPAPER "LE COURRIER DE SAONE-ET-LOIRE":
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"Flying saucers" are the topic of the day. It's quite rare to see two people meet without talking about them.
They are seen in all shapes: cigars, chamber pots, bells, melons, etc... Everyone tries to come up with a new shape, unlike anything previously seen.
In Nanton, and in Etrigny as well, honest housewives going about their usual chores believed they saw strange objects in the sky, kinds of spinning tops that, like meteors, appeared and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
People are speculating endlessly about what these appearances could mean, and some do not hesitate to call them visions.
They say that in Balleure, a wagon axle was seen flying, which, after a short journey around the area, returned to land at its point of origin. Fortunately, no one was underneath to catch it on their head...
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Balleure is now a district of Etrigny.
It is impossible for me to understand what happened here; I can only point out that it apparently was not a meteor, since the so-called "cart axle" supposedly "returned to its starting point."
So: totally insufficient information.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Balleure, Etrigny, Saône-et-Loire, elongated
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