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URECAT - UFO Related Entities Catalog

URECAT is a formal catalog of UFO related entities sightings reports with the goal of providing quality information for accurate studies of the topic. Additional information, corrections and reviews are welcome at patrick.gross@inbox.com, please state if you wish to be credited for your contribution or not. The main page of the URECAT catalog is here.

OCTOBER 1954, SEMONS, ISERE, FRANCE, A FARMER:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

In a series of articles about the French saucer flap of 1954 issued in 1993 from journalistic sources found by ufologist Jean Sider, the ufology magazine "Lumières Dans La Nuit" apparently listed that in the early days of October 1954, in the evening, in Semons, France, a farmer who remained anoymous saw saucer in his yard, and small human-looking beings making calf sounds, who entered the object, which quickly left vertically.

Basic information table:

Case number: URECAT-000301
Date of event: October 1954
Earliest report of event: 1993
Delay of report: 4 decades?
Witness reported via: Not known.
First alleged record by: Ufology magazine LDLN.
First certain record by: Ufology catalogue Rosales.
First alleged record type: Ufology magazine.
First certain record type: Ufology catalogue.
This file created on: September 12, 2007
This file last updated on: March 23, 2017
Country of event: France
State/Department: Isère
Type of location: Field.
Lighting conditions: Night
UFO observed: Yes
UFO arrival observed: Yes
UFO departure observed: Yes
UFO/Entity Relation: Certain
Witnesses numbers: 1
Witnesses ages: Not reported.
Witnesses types: Farmer. Man.
Photograph(s): No.
Witnesses drawing: No.
Witnesses-approved drawing: No.
Number of entities: 1
Type of entities: Humanoid or human
Entities height: Small
Entities outfit type: Not reported.
Entities outfit color: Not reported.
Entities skin color: Not reported.
Entities body: Normal.
Entities head: Not reported.
Entities eyes: Not reported.
Entities mouth: Not reported.
Entities nose: Not reported.
Entities feet: Not reported.
Entities arms: Not reported.
Entities fingers: Not reported.
Entities fingers number: Not reported.
Entities hair: Not reported.
Entities voice: None reported.
Entities actions: Entered UFO, departure.
Entities/witness interactions: None or escape.
Witness(es) reactions: Observed.
Witness(es) feelings: Not reported.
Witness(es) interpretation: Not reported.
Explanation category: Possible confusion. Insufficient data.
Explanation certainty: High.

Narratives:

[Ref. js1:] JEAN SIDER:

The author indicates that according to the newspaper Le Dauphiné Libéré for October 9, 1945, page 6, several beings were seen coming out of a saucer while making calf sounds, then they quickly entered in their machine which took off vertically.

Jean Sider specifies that the witness is anonymous.

[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:

91.
Location. Semons France
Date: October 1954
Time: 2200

A farmer saw a landed disc shaped object on a pasture. When the calves in a nearby field start bleating, a small human like figure was seen running into the object. The object then quickly departs.

HC addition # 2402
Source: LDLN # 319
Type: B

[Ref. lc1:] LUC CHASTAN:

Luc Chastan indicates that in the Isère in Semons in October 1954 at an unknown hour, "In the first days of the month, the witness observed in his court a strange object which had landed at nightfall. Small beings had come out of there, uttering young calf lowings, then had rushed up in their vehicle which went away again at once vertically in the sky."

The source is noted as "Lumières dans la Nuit".

[Ref. ud1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:

The website indicates that on In October 1954 at 22:00 in Semons, France, there was a sighting.

The source is noted as Hatch, Larry, *U* computer database, Author, Redwood City, 2002.

[Ref. ud1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:

The website indicates that on October 1954 at 22:00 in Semons, France, "A farmer saw a landed disc shaped object on a pasture. When the calves in a nearby field start bleating, a small human like figure was seen running into the object. The object then quickly departs.

The source is a broken link.

[Ref. ta1:] "THINK ABOUT IT" WEBSITE:

Location: Semons France

Date: October 1954

Time: 2200

A farmer saw a landed disc shaped object on a pasture. When the calves in a nearby field start bleating, a small human like figure was seen running into the object. The object then quickly departs.

Source: LDLN # 319.

[Ref. gz1:] JULIEN GONZALEZ:

The author indicates that there was a close encounter of the third kind in Semons in the Isère one evening at the beginning of October 1954:

An anonymous witness saw several small beings emerging from a saucer utterring calf mooves and then quickly reintegrating their machine which took off vertically.

Sources are indicated as Le Dauphiné Libéré for October 24, 1954, and Jean Sider in "Le dossier 1954 et l'imposture rationaliste" on page 176.

Points to consider:

The data is obviously insufficient for this report probably found in some local newspaper and probably never investigated.

The occupant seems described as a normal human, "small" or "little" could to correspond to an observation distance, the description of the apparatus is insufficient, and while it is rather improbable though not impossible that a helicopter made a landing and takeoff by night in the nature in the Isère, such an explanation cannot be excluded here, nor can some car in the distance be excluded, the notions of landing and taking off being vague enough here so that it might have been as some newspapers of the time did: a simple arrival and a simple departure becomes more than that. One of the key elements here would be the observation distance, but nothing is said about it.

List of issues:

Id: Topic: Severity: Date noted: Raised by: Noted by: Description: Proposal: Status:
1 Data Severe September 12, 2007 Patrick Gross Patrick Gross Primary source not available and not indicated. - Changed October 18, 2007: primary source indicated.
2 Data Severe September 12, 2007 Patrick Gross Patrick Gross Secondary source not available. Help needed. Opened.
3 Ufology Severe September 12, 2007 Patrick Gross Patrick Gross No trace of an investigation. Help needed. Opened.
4 Ufology Severe September 12, 2007 Patrick Gross Patrick Gross Unique unnamed witness, background not known. Help needed. Opened.
5 Ufology Severe September 12, 2007 Patrick Gross Patrick Gross Sighting by night at unknown distance, spare description, no reliability. Help needed. Opened.
6 Ufology Severe September 12, 2007 Patrick Gross Patrick Gross Basic ufology data missing: exact date, exact place, etc.. Help needed. Opened.
7 Data Severe October 18, 2007 Patrick Gross Patrick Gross Missing primary source. Help needed. Opened.

Evaluation:

Possible confusion. Insufficient data.

Sources references:

* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.

Document history:

Authoring

Main Author: Patrick Gross
Contributors: None
Reviewers: None
Editor: Patrick Gross

Changes history

Version: Created/Changed By: Date: Change Description:
0.1 Patrick Gross September 12, 2007 Creation, [ar1].
1.0 Patrick Gross September 12, 2007 First published.
1.1 Patrick Gross October 18, 2007 Addition [js1], corresponding changes in List of Issues.
1.2 Patrick Gross March 18, 2010 Additions [lc1], [ud1], [ud2].
1.2 Patrick Gross March 23, 2017 Addition [gz1].

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