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MID OCTOBER 1954, SAINT-PRIVAT-DE-VALLONGE, LOZERE:

Reference number for this case: Oct-54-Saint-Privat-de-Vallonge. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

REPORTS:

[Ref. 1635] "LE PROVENCAL" NEWSPAPER:

SAUCERS OR NOT SAUCERS?

A strange phenomenon observed after
the passing of a jet airplane

above the valley of the Rhône

Vienne (A.F.P.).
A "Stratojet" plane which, each day, flies over the valley of the Rhone at an altitude of approximately ten thousand meters, was mistaken Tuesday, by certain people, for a flying saucer.

The president instructor of the Aero club of Vienne dissuaded the too imaginative witnesses at once, but a strange phenomenon occurred at once after the passage of the powerful jet. It formed, indeed, in the sky, sorts of parachuts animated of odd movements and having the aspect of light veils which soon reached the ground.

The witnesses of the phenomenon seized this matter, very soft at touching, and having a little the consistency of rubber. While arriving on the ground, this one volatilized, probably under the influence of the temperature.

One of the witnesses put a little of the substance in a box and had it photograph at once. A few hours afterwards, what remained in this box, however sealed, had evaporated.

This phenomenon due to condensation in the rarefied and cold atmosphere, of certain elements of the fuel of the "Stratojet", can cause white or irrized formations moving at high speed at great altitude and thus giving place to more or less whimsical interpretations.

This observation made above the aerodrome of Vienne is identical to that already reported in its time [1952] by an inhabitant of Oloron.

A FLYING SAUCER IN INDONESIA

Bondowoao (Indonesia) (A.P.). A flying saucer caused a disturbance in the town of Bondowoao, at 80 kilometers of the island of Bali. Several inhabitants state to have seen, during one half-minute, a greenish object which crossed the sky in North-western direction.

A BLACK CIGAR LANDS IN THE LOZERE

Saint Privat de Valongues (C.P.).
Mr. Albert Mallet of Fabrègue, city council man, had the surprise, last week, around 21 hours, to see a mysterious apparatus of lengthened form, black, that landed in a field very close to his house: the apparatus took off again all at once, almost vertically, at a vertiginous speed, with a gentle whistling sound like an electric motor, and emitting sharp red colors.

[Ref. 711] JEAN SIDER:

French ufologist and author Jean Sider learned in an article from the Le Provençal, of Marseilles, for October 21, 1954, on page 12, that in mid-October 1954 at 09:00 p.m. in Saint-Privat-de-Vallongue, in the department of Lozere a "cigar" landed in a field

The witness is Albert Mallet, city council man, who saw the mysterious machine of elongatedshape land in a field very close to his house. The apparatus set out again almost at once and almost vertically and a vertiginous speed with a gentle whistling sound like that of an electric motor, while emitting sharp red colors.

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Saint-Privat-de-Vallonge, Lozère, Albert Mallet, machine, cigar, object, night, field, noise, whistle, landing, takeoff, red, engine, sound

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