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Reference number for this case: 14-oct-54-Meursanges. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. am1:] AIME MICHEL:
Aimé Michel indicates that on Thursday October 14, Mr. and Mrs. Vitré, grocers living on place Madeleine in Beaune, had just left the village of Meursanges in their van to return to their home. After having driven a few hundreds of meters at the exit of Meursanges on National Road RN 111, they saw a luminous object flying quickly in the sky through the pane of their vehicle.
They quickly jump out of their van and alert the inhabitants of a neighbor farm with whom they contemplate the evolutions of the machine. They stated:
"The object stopped one moment, went down slowly while wobbling and changing color, throwing yellow, oranges and purple luminosities, then departed again and disappeared behind the trees of a wood."
Aimé Michel notes that in addition to the two grocers and of the peasants of the farm which they alerted, a witness of the village of Chevigny-in-Valière, located close to the same wood at the east-south-east described exactly the same spectacle at the same time.
[Ref. fr1:] MICHEL FIGUET AND JEAN LOUIS RUCHON:
Michel Figuet indicates that on October 14, 1954, at 06:30 P.M., Mr and Mrs Vitré, grocers in Beaune, had left the village of Meursanges driving their van. The grocer and his wife then saw a luminous object which moved in the sky "at a tremendous pace," they stopped the car, stepped down quickly and alerted the inhabitants of a farm so that they also see what the "luminous object" started to do. It had stopped and went down slowly while wobbling. During this descent, it changed color, throwing yellow, oranges and purple luminosities. It was indeed an "attractive spectacle." After some time, this object departed again and disappeared behind the trees of a wood. Another witness, living close to this wood, observed in an independent way the same spectacle, at the same moment.
[Ref. bb1] GERARD BARTHEL AND JACQUES BRUCKER:
The two authors note this case of October 14, 1954:
"Meursange - 21 - At approximately 06:30 p.m.: investigation. The witness confirms: luminous phenomenon of fire color, no stop."
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