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Reference number for this case: 18-Oct-54-Formerie. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. 522] CLAUDE POHER, UFO RESEARCH GROUP "GEPA":
In 1968-1969, before the official GEPAN ufology effort started, its future head Dr Claude Poher was a member of the unofficial GEPA ufology group, and gathered a computer coded listing of more than 700 UFO reports on which multiple factors statistical computation could be run. In the file were a number of 1954 French UFO reports, among those this one.
For readability, a decoded interpretation of the data is provided here under the original 80 character encoded string. Decoding was done according to the original indications, the code number and its generic meaning is given. Please not that the generic meaning of each code is a predefined category, not the real specific details of the case. For example, if the main witness' age was 33, the coding would result in a number "3" which corresponds to a category "Adult from 21 to 59 years."
| Original code: | 0627551810195420451JA3132010240013ZZZZ000140500000011015000020000000200000000000 |
|---|---|
| Location: | Formerie (Oise) - France |
| Case number: | 0627 |
| Source code: | 55 |
| Nature of the source: | Reports from official French sources : Police, Gendarmerie, Army, Pilots |
| Day: | 18 |
| Month: | 10 |
| Year: | 54 |
| Hours: | 20 |
| Minutes: | 45 |
| Type of Time: | 1 = local time |
| Number of witnesses: | 3 = 3 |
| Main witness named: | 1 = name(s) indicated |
| Main witness age: | 3 = Adult from 21 to 59 years |
| Main witness occupation: | 2 = farmer, docker, navy, housekeeper |
| Official investigation: | 1 = an official investigation was made |
| Weather: | 0 = no indication |
| Duration: | 2 = from 1 to 9 seconds |
| Minimal distance witness - phenomenon: | 4 = from 151 to 999 m |
| Method of observation: | 0 = no indication |
| Number of "objects" observed simultaneously: | 01 = 1 |
| Shape of the "object" (terminology of witness(es)): | 3 = cigar, cylinder, rocket |
| Dimensions of the phenomenon: | ZZZZ = no indication |
| Color of the observed phenomenon: | 00 = no indication |
| Luminosity of the phenomenon: | 0 = no indication |
| Lights or projectors on the phenomenon: | 1 = projectors, lights, phares, lumières, "portholes" |
| Moving speed of the phenomenon: | 4 = "dazzling" speed and equivalent adjectives |
| Acceleration of the phenomenon: | 0 = no indication |
| Trajectory of the phenomenon: | 5 = complex trajectory with a certain regularity. following a river or a sinuous road |
| Sounds perceived during observation: | 0 = no indication |
| Maximum angular height of observation (horizon = 0°): | 0 = no indication |
| Nature of the landing place: | 0 = no indication |
| Number of contact points with ground: | 0 = no indication |
| Traces of landing: | 0 = no indication |
| Observation of "occupants" | 1 = disembarkation of one or more occupant without counting |
| Height of the occupants observed: | 0150 = 1 m 50 |
| Garment of the occupants: | 01 = helmet |
| Garment: | 5 = "metallic garment" |
| General behavior of "occupants": | 0 = no indication |
| Interaction of "occupants" with witness: | 0 = no indication |
| Head, hair: | 0 = no indication |
| Voice, breathing, chin: | 0 = no indication |
| Skin: | 2 = dark skin |
| Eyes: | 0 = no indication |
| Mouth: | 0 = no indication |
| Various details: | 0 = no indication |
| Thermal effects: | 0 = no indication |
| Luminous effects: | 0 = no indication |
| Magnetic effect (or electromagnetic): | 0 = no indication |
| Odor perceived by witness: | 0 = no indication |
| Physiological effects on the witness(es): | |
| Psychological effect on the witness(es): | 2 = headache, loss of memory |
| Effects on animals: | |
| Other effects reported: | |
| Nebulosity: | |
| Oscillations, emission of matter: | |
| Spin, formation flight: | |
| Immediate disappearance: | |
| Halo surrounding the phenomenon: | |
| Interaction witness / phenomenon (complement to the other rubrics): | |
| Drawing or photo: | |
| Structural details observed: | 0 = no indication |
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(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Formerie, Oise, official, investigation, multiple, object, light, fast, occupant, helmet, metallique, effect, skin, manoeuvre
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