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Reference number for this case: 14-Oct-54-Hurecourt. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. 549] AIME MICHEL:
Aimé Michel reports that on October 16, 1954, at about 21:30, in Hurecourt in the Haute-Saône, "Whereas the guests of a party were having fun dancing, one of them, when he went outside, saw the phenomenon. Rushing back in, he called his friends. And all the party, newweds ahead, had the time to come outside and to contemplate the luminous craft which moved "at a fast pace and in a straight line from one horizon to the other."
In a footnote, Michel gives as reference "Alerte dans le Ciel", the book by ufologist Charles Garreau, page 150.
The phenomenon having been seen since of very many places in France, there was an investigation by the "saucers commission" of the Air Force which concluded that it was a "slow meteor."
The ufologist friend of Aime Michel, Charles Garreau, looked further into the investigation and found that the slow meteor had to be really too slow since according to his averages based on the many testimonys it took it nearly 10 minutes to cross 500 kilometers. This is why Aimé Michel regards the explanation by a "slow meteor" as relatively suspect.
Aimé Michel also wrote about the October 16, 1954, 09:30 p.m. meteor:
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THE TEST OF THE METEOR. October 16, as if it was purposely, a splendid meteor crossed the north of France towards 09:30 p.m.. It was observed on a score of departments by thousands of people, from the Allier to Lorraine and from the Swiss border to Paris. Naturally many witnesses believed to have seen a Flying Saucer and said so. The newspapers printed "Flying Saucer in Orly", or "in Montididier", or "in Metz." But once again the description made by all these weak brains appeared of a remarkable honesty. [...] The innumerable gathered testimonys show indeed that even when the witnesses called "Flying saucer" the observed object, their description is identical on 200.000 square kilometres where the visible phenomenon was visible: an "orange ball followed by a trail", a "large luminous ball with a tail", a "flying egg followed by a trail", a "bottle's bottom with a trail of thirty times its diameter", etc. The same phenomenon is uniformly described. [...] |
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