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Reference number for this case: 1-Oct-54-Ligescourt. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. le1:] NEWSPAPER "L'EST REPUBLICAIN:"
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DURING THE LAST WEEK-ENDThe flying saucers disturbed the Sunday rest of a certain number of FrenchmenChamonix. -- The chronicle of the flying saucers and other "cigars" continues to be abundantly provided. During the last weekend, the witnesses who have, indeed, seen mysterious machines are countless. It is apparently Chamonix which should be given the priority, since, at the same moment, officers of the high mountain school, gendarmes, and pilot Guiron who flew over the area saw during more than one hour a white shining craft move between the mount Lachat and Mount Blanc. Pilot Guiron said that, flying at approximately 2.000 meters above Faverges, he saw a craft which, he said, did not have any resemblance to a normal plane. Moreover, the direction followed at high speed by this apparatus excluded a sounding-balloon. In Corbigny (the Nièvre), several inhabitants saw a luminous disc of orange color which moved in the sky and disappeared vertically after having changed altitude several times. In Breuil-Chaussée, in the Deux-Sèvres, Mr. Girardeau, 55 years old, went to his work when, in a turn of the road, he noticed a circular machine "close to which was a being which seemed to him dressed in a kind of diving-suit". The "being" moved towards him and Mr. Girardeau fled, frightened. A little later the circular machine went away at high speed! "You would have said a haystack" It is also a curious machine around whose two odd individuals wandered that two young people people of Vron (Somme) stated to have seen. "We approached, they entrusted to the gendarmes. A haystack you would have said. Suddenly, the machine took off". In the Indre, as well in Levroux as in Vatan, about fifteen people lengthily followed the moves of a luminous ball of yellowish color which went up and down in the sky and could have been three meters in diameter. |
[Ref. ra1:] "RADAR" MAGAZINE:
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VRON[Caption of photograph:] Decidedly, Devoisin climbs on a pole. At his feet his friend: "Too late, it's gone." Their work completed, Bernard Devoisin and Rene Coudette, aged 18, return to Vron on bicycles, when suddenly on the road from Ligescourt to Vron (close to Abbeville) Bernard exclamates: - Look, René, over there, at 70 m... It is not an animal. Hey, in the full middle of the way, a saucer! And the pilot... He has to see us in spite of his diving-suit and his mask. - You think so? - Surely, it circumvents its apparatus in the shape of hive, orange color, and woop! without a noise, the apparatus slides away... Where is it? There, above the beets: it moves towards the "Wood of the Vert-Logis". Not very quickly. It goes at 45 per hour. Yes, but what a mass! At least 2 m. high and 3 m. broad... You would think it will mow the treetops. Will it lander farther?" |
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[Ref. jg1:] JIMMY GUIEU:
Science Fiction writer and also one of the pioneers of French ufology Jimmy Guieu reports that on October 1, 1954 at 06:45 P.M., at 4 kilometers of Ligescourt, two young people were riding their bicycle when they saw an orange mass in the shape of a hive, conical at its top. The thing had a height of approximately two meters and occupied all the width of the road at 150 meters in front of them, the road being approximately three meters broad.
The cyclist in front saw something which moved and which he initially thought of being an animal on the left. But two young people suddenly realized that it was a being of small equiped of a diving-suit.
Whereas they were approaching, and had arrived at 70 meters, the small being circumvented the machine, and the machine then took off almost at once without making noise.
Jimmy Guieu indicates that there was an investigation which determined that two young people were honourably known in the area and thus could not have invented the incident. He reports that the police and other people who saw the witnesses after the incident noted their great emotion which could not have been simulated.
[Ref. am1:] AIME MICHEL:
In his book, Aimé Michel reports that on the evening of October 3, 1954, at about 06:45 P.M., two young people both aged 18 and of Vron in the Somme, Bernard Devoisin and Rene Coudette, were riding their bicycles on the secondary road 27 close to Vron, a small village at 8 km of Rue and also at 8 km of Quend.
Whereas they were at 4 km of Ligescourt, they see at a distance of 150 meters of them, on the road, a sort of luminous craft emitting an orange light. Aimé Michel gives the account of the witnesses:
"It was circular, broad of three meters, high of perhaps two meters, and evoked the shape of a grinding stone. Close to it, something moved, which we initially mistook for an animal. But when we were getting closer, we soon saw that it was a being of the size of a child and clothed as with a diving suit. He went up in the apparatus, which flew away quickly, without noise, whereas we were not any more but within 70 meters."
[Ref. mc1:] MICHEL CARROUGES:
The author indicates that on October 3, 1954, two young cyclists, Devoisin and Condette, aged 18 and 19, rode towards 06:45 p.m. close to Ligescourt in the Somme, and in front of them on the road they see a saucer in the shape of a haystack, luminous and orange. One moment they see a small diver who hastens to return in the machine which flies away at once without noise when the two cyclists are no more than 70 meters away.
[Ref. jv5:] JACQUES VALLEE:
| 205 | -001.83096 | 50.81360 | 03 | 10 | 1954 | 18 | 45 | 103 | LIGESCOURT -SOMME | F | 0112 | 2C | *198 |
[Ref. lo1:] CORAL AND JIM LORENZEN:
The authors note that on September 30, 1954, Bernard Devoisin and Rene Coudette of Vron in the Somme, France, both aged 18, were riding their bicycles on road D-27 about 06:45 p.m. at a point about two and a half miles from Ligescourt when they both suddenly spotted a luminous object in the middle of the road at seemingly 150 meters ahead of them.
The circular object emitted an orange light, was estimated to be 6 feet high and the witnesses thought it reminded haystack. There was something that moved near the object and they first first thought it was an animal, but as they approached, they saw that it was a creature of kid's size and dressed like a diver. It got into the glowing object; which took off when they were about 70 meters from it.
The investigators found the boys to be sincere and of good reputation in their home community.
[Ref. jv1:] JACQUES VALLEE:
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183 Oct. 03, 1954, 06:45 P.M., Vron (France). Between Rue and Quend on Road D27, Rene Coudette and B. Devoisin were riding bicycles with a third witness when they saw an orange object, shaped like a honeycomb, on the road ahead of them. A strange "man" wearing a diving suit was standing close to it. When they got within 70 m of it, the object took off very fast. (3Z; M 118) (Le Figaro, 4 Oct. 1954; France-Soir, Libération, la Croix, 5 Oct. 1954). |
[Ref. lo1:] CORAL AND JIM LORENZEN:
The authors indicate that on October 3, 1954, in France, an orange honeycomb-shaped or haystack-shaped object was reported by three men who were riding bicycles near of Vron. They saw a man-shaped creature in a diving suit, and the three men came within 70 meters of the object before it took off.
[Ref. jv2:] JACQUES VALLEE:
The author indicates that on October 3, 1954, three men went by bicycle close to Vron when they they saw an orange object in the shape of a slide of beehive on the road in front of them. A man dressed in a diving stood close to it. The vision took place on the D.27 road between Rue and Quend.
[Ref. gl1:] CHARLES GARREAU AND RAYMOND LAVIER:
The two ufologists and authors report that on October 1st near Ligescourt, Bernard Devoisin and Rene Condette were driving bicycles when they saw at a hundred meters from the location "Mezoutre" a craft in the shape of a haystack which occupied all the width of the road. They estimated its size as of three meters broad at its base and three meters in height. Bernard Devoisin saw a humanoid dressed in a diving-suit whose size was of a little more than 1 meter on the left of the machine. The humanoid disappeared behind the machine which took off then without noise up to one meter of the ground, then it moved away hedgehopping at a speed of approximately 50 km/h.
[Ref. bb1:] JACQUES BARTHEL AND GERARD BRUCKER:
The authors indicate that they contacted the witnesses again, that the first admits not to have seen the beings whereas he was with the other witness who admits to have seen them, small, dark, at a distance of 200 meters and by night.
[Ref. fr1:] MICHEL FIGUET AND JEAN-LOUIS RUCHON:
The two authors indicate that on October 1, 1954 at 06:45 p.m., the two witnesses, Bernard Devoisin, aged 18, and René Coudette, aged 19, circulated on their bicycles on the secondary road 27 coming from Ligescourt, being at the place known as "Grand Mezoutre" or "Clapette", when they saw within 150 meters from them on the road an orange mass in the shape of a beehive or a haystack of approximately two meters in height and taking all the width of the roadway, which is approximately 3 meters.
The cyclist at the head saw something which moved that he first mistakes for an animal. But the two men realized that it was a being of small size dessed of a diving-suit. This last then circumvents quickly the object which takes off almost at once without noise flying in close-cropped mound with pace reduced to 70 meters of the witnesses.
They list the sources as the Vallée catalogue, case 103; Jimmy Guieu in "Black-Out sur les S.V" page 181; C. Garreau and R. Lavier in "Face aux ET" page 32; Michel Carrouges in "Les apparitions de Martiens" page 119; Quincy; Aimé Michel in "A propos des S.V." page 148; Journal du Centre for October 5, 1954; Le Courrier Picard for October 4, 1954, page 3; Abbeville Libre for October 8, 1954; Nord-Littoral for October 5, 1954; Le Journal de Doullens for October 9, 1954; Le Journal de Rue for October 9, 1954; La Voix du Nord for October 5, 1954; Nord-Matin for October 5, 1954; Libre Artois for October 6, 1954; Le Nouveau Nord Maritime for October 5, 1954.
They specify that the date is given only in Abbeville Libre, Le Journal de Rue, Le Courrier Picard and La Voix du Nord.
[Ref. go1] GODELIEVE VAN OVERMEIRE:
Godelieve van Overmeire indicates that on October 1, 1954, in France, in Ligescourt in the Somme, "at 18:45 three (two) cyclists saw an orange object in front of them, having the shape of a honeycomb. A strange being dressed of a diving-suit stood near the craft. When they arrived at 70 m of him, the object moved away very fast."
The sources for this version are indicated as Jacques Vallée: "Chronique des apparitions ET" - DENOEL 1972 - J'AI LU COLL. - p. 266; Jimmy GUIEU: Black-out sur les S.V." - FLEUVE NOIR 1956 - p. 163 with the mention in parenthesis."
Godelieve van Overmeire indicates that another version is: "Bernard Devoisin and Rene Condette, by bicycle, see a machine in the shape of cereal grinding stone which occipies all the width of the road: 3 meters in height, 3 meters broad at its base. Bernard Devoisin sees on the left of the apparatus a humanoid whose size hardly exceeds 1 meter. He is dressed of a diving-suit. He disappears behind the machine, which rises then gently 1 meter above the ground, without noise. Then it moves away hedgehopping at a speed of approximately 50 km/h".
The sources for this version are indicated as GARREAU et LAVIER: "Face aux extra-terrestres" - DELARGE 1975, J'ai Lu, p. 34, 35.
She indicates that another version is: "Bernard Devoisin, aged 18, and Rene Coudette, aged 19, see at 150 m of them, posed on the asphalt road, an orange mass in the shape of a hive (...) The on who rides aheadsees something moving and mistakes it for an animal. They realize suddenly that it is a small being dressed in a diving-suit (...)"
The sources for this version are indicated as M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet..." Alain Lefeuvre pub. 1979, p. 103.
[Ref. sd1:] STEVEN DUNN:
| DATE | DESCRIPTION | MICAP_CLAS | REF |
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| 09/30/1954 | Ligescourt, FR 30 Sep 54 Devoisn & Coudette were riding their bikes when they spotted a glowing orange object on the road. Near it was a small being in a diving suit, who entered the craft, which then took off. |
CE-3-103 | Randle/Estes, FOV pg 266 |
| DATE | DESCRIPTION | MICAP_CLAS | REF |
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| 10/03/1954 | Vron, FR 3 OCT 54 Three men saw a haystack-shaped craft. A "man-shaped" creature in a diving suit was seen. |
CE-3-103 | Lorenzen, UTWS, pg 172 |
[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:
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94. Two young men were bicycling when they saw on the road, 500 ft ahead, a beehive-shaped orange object about 9 ft in diameter and 6 ft high. Then they saw a being of small stature dressed in a diving suit, which ran rapidly around the object. It took off without sound when the witnesses were 150 ft away. Humcat 1954-16 |
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102. Two young cyclists, Bernard Devoisin and Rene Coudette, both 18, saw in the middle of the road an orange luminous object of "haystack" shaped, 3 yards wide and 2 yards high. Approaching to within 70 yards, they observed a being "the height of a child, dressed like a diver," which entered the UFO. The craft took off without a sound. Humcat 1954-66 |
[Ref. rh1] RICHARD HALL:
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TABLE 1. UFO OCCUPANT SIGHTINGS, 1954-1963 [...] October 3, 1954 Bernard Devoisin, Rene Coudette, Ligescourt, France 6:45 P.M. One child-sized being, diver's suit; glowing orange domed disc on road, bicyclists approached, being entered craft and took off. [...] |
[Ref. lc1:] LUC CHASTAN:
Luc Chastan indicates that in the Somme in Ligescourt on October 1, 1954 at 18:45 hours, "the two witnesses drive by bicycle on the secondary road 27 coming from Ligescourt. They are in location "Grande Mezoutre" or "La Clapette". They see within 150 m of them on the road an orange mass in the shape of hive or of haystack of approximately two meters in height and taking all the width of the roadway approximately 3 meters. The cyclist ahead sees something moving that he first mistakes for an animal. But the two men realize that it is actually a being of small size dressed of a diving-suit. The latterthen circumvents the object quickly, which takes off almost at once without noise flying at ground level at reduced pace at 70 meters of the witnesses."
The source is indicated as "Ovni, Premier dossier complet... by Figuet M./ Ruchon J.L. ** Alain Lefeuvre pub. 1979".
[Ref. ud1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:
The website indicates that on 30 September 1954 at 18:45, D27, near Ligescourt, France, there was a close encounter "with a an unidentified craft and occupants. Multiple independent witnesses. One object, about 10 feet across, was observed by two male witnesses, typical age 18, on a highway briefly (Devoisin; Galant)."
The sources are indicated as Lorenzen, Coral E., Flying Saucer Occupants, Signet T3205, New York, 1967; Lorenzen, Coral E., Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, New York, 1976, ISBN:425-03093-8.
[Ref. ud2:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:
The website indicates that on 3 October 1954 18:45, in Ligescourt, Nr Vron, France, "Type 8.1 two bicyclists saw on road, 150 feet away, orange beehive object, 9' diameter. Small .9m being in diver suit ran around object. Took off silently. Explanation: Moon. Close encounter with a an unidentified craft and its occupants."
"One orange domed disc, about 10 feet across, around 100 feet away, was observed by two experienced male witnesses on a road briefly (Coudette; Devoisin; Galland; Mansart). No sound was heard. One 3-foot-tall dwarf, wearing a diver's suit, was seen."
The sources are indicated as Guieu, Jimmy, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, Citadel, New York, 1956; Michel, Aime, Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, S. G. Phillips, New York, 1958; Lorenzen, Coral E., UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet T3897, New York, 1969; Pereira, Jader U., Les Extra-Terrestres, Phenomenes Spatiaux, Paris, 1974; Vallee, Jacques, Computerized Catalog (N = 3073); Vallee, Jacques, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, Henry Regnery, Chicago, 1966; Vallee, Jacques, Preliminary Catalog (N = 500), (in JVallee01); Vallee, Jacques, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, Henry Regnery, Chicago, 1965; Vallee, Jacques, A Century of Landings (N = 923), (in JVallee04), Chicago, 1969; Schoenherr, Luis, Computerized Catalog (N = 3173); Carrouges, Michel, Les Apparitions de Martiens, Fayard, Paris, 1963; Hall, Richard H., The UFO Evidence, NICAP, Washington, 1964; Delaire, J. Bernard, UFO Register Volume 7 (1976), Data Research, Oxford, 1976; Newspaper Clippings Hall, Richard H., The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, 2000, ISBN:0-8103-3881-8; Hatch, Larry, *U* computer database, Author, Redwood City, 2002; Hatch, Larry, internet data.
[Ref. ud3:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:
The website indicates that on 3 October 1954 at 18:45, in Vron, France, "Orange object, shaped like a honeycomb, and a strange "man", wearing a diving suit". "Between Rue and Quend on Road D27, Rene Coudette and B. Devoisin were riding bicycles with a third witness when they saw an orange object, shaped like a honeycomb, on the road ahead of them. A strange "man" wearing a diving suit was standing close to it. When they got within 70 meters of it, the object took off very fast."
"One orange object was observed." "Two young cyclists, Bernard Devoisin and Rene Coudette, both 18, saw in the middle of the road an orange luminous object of 'haystack' shaped, 3 yards wide and 2 yards high. Approaching to within 70 yards, they observed a being 'the height of a child, dressed like a diver,' which entered the UFO. The craft took off without a sound."
The sources are indicated as "Vallee Magonia Database"; Rosales, Albert, Humanoid Sighting Reports Database.
[Ref. dj2:] DONALD JONHSON:
Donald Johnson says that the third humanoid report on October 3, 1954, occurred at 6:45 p.m. Rene Coudette and B. Devoisin were riding bicycles with a third witness between Rue and Quend, Somme, France on Route D27, near the village of Vron, when they saw a glowing orange object, shaped like a beehive, on the road ahead of them. A small strange "man" wearing a diving suit, about 0.9 meters (3 foot) tall, was standing close to it. When they got within 70 meters of it, the object took off very fast.
The sources are noted as "Michel, Aime, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, pp. 118, 116; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216."
Not looked for yet.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Vron, Somme, Rue, Quend, René Coudette, Condette, Bernard Devoisin, object, honeycomb, orange, occupant, humanoid, diving suit
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| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | May 8, 2004 | First published. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | February 12, 2009 | Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Additions [go1], [lc1], [ud1], [ud2], [ud3]. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | April 24, 2009 | Addition [bb1]. |
| 1.2 | Patrick Gross | February 28, 2010 | Addition [dj2]. |
| 1.3 | Patrick Gross | June 20, 2010 | Addition [jv5]. |
| 1.4 | Patrick Gross | July 29, 2010 | Addition [le1]. |
