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The 1954 French flap:

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Unknown date, probably October, 1954, unknown place, unknown department:

Reference for this case: Oct-54-bb1.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Reports:

[Ref. b1:] GERARD BARTHEL AND JACQUES BRUCKER:

The two authors indicate, in order to illustrate their opinion on the poor content of the saucer reports in the press, the following extract of which they indicate that the source is the newspaper La Nouvelle République for October 6, 1954:

"12 hunters have seen a craft in the shape of a "pendulum" which flew at a tremendous pace at treetop level."

Explanations:

A meteor is possible.

Keywords:

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

Multiple, hunters, object, craft, low, fast, pendulum

Sources:

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

[----] Article in the newspaper La Nouvelle République, France, October 6, 1954.
[bbr1] "La Grande Peur Martienne", book by Gérard Barthel and Jacques Brucker, Les nouvelles Editions Rationalistes publisher, page 138, 1979.

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