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Reference number for this case: 20-oct-54-Issenheim. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. 1612] "CENTRE MATIN" NEWSPAPER:
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A flying saucer of car size land in OranTHE FLYING SAUCERS APPEARED LAST NIGHT MAINLY ABOVE NORMANDY. IF WE ARE TO BELIEVE SEVRAL PEOPLE, AMONG THEN MISS MICHELLE VITKOSUSKY, CLERK OF NOTARY, SEVERAL UNIDENTIFIED MACHINES HAVE EVOLVED DURING TWO HOURS. OF A MACHINE VIOLENTLY ENLIGHTENED, AND POSED IN A FIELD, AT THE LEFT OF THE ROAD OF SAINT-VALERY-EN-CAUX, ESCAPED LUMINOUS DISCS WHICH TOOK ALTITUDE QUICKLY, TO THEN REGAIN THEIR INITIAL LOCATION. A flying cigar carried out the same things. Two other machines seen not far from the cliff of Mers-les-Bains, seemed to communicate by signals with the first group. It should be added that the gendarmes who carried out an investigation on the spot did not find any trace of this mysterious carrousel. A phenomenon a bit similar is said to have been observed above Vic-Bigorre, by a group of ten students who were training on a sports ground. They are said to have seen four discs in formation which seemed to rotate at high speed. Several testimonys were gathered in Alsace. One of the witnesses, Lucien Fiesch [Fisch] saw close to Issenheim a spherical machine of approximately 6 meters in diameter which stationed within one meter of the ground. Frightened, Mr. Fiesch [Fisch] went away and regained his workplace. In Guebwiller, Mr. Pierre Ackerman stated to have seen in the sky a brilliant disc which moved silently at approximately 400 meters of altitude. Two schoolboys confirmed this statement. A resident [female] of Soultzmatt, stated to have observed a machine of elongated form which moved at very high speed. Another testimony comes from the Nievre. The Lormes-Nevers bus moved towards this latter city, when, near Saxi-Bourdon, the driver stopped and exclaimed: "a saucer", all the passengers went down and distinguished, if they must be believed, a disc shining like aluminum, at 70 or 80 meters of altitude. The last testimony is that of a factor of the Saint-Pierre-la-Cour station, who saw a disc in the sky, spreading luminous orange rays. Wednesday morning, around 3 hours, Mr. Gaston Blanquère, resident in Oran, was returning with passengers on board his car. A little after the village of Jean-Mermoz, the attention of the motorists was attracted by a sharp gleam coming from the south and which grew bigger quickly. A luminous disc crossed the road above them, descended a few hundreds meters further and appeared to contact the ground. The machine had the size of a small car. It was composed of a higher cupola from which came out a yellow gleam. The lower part of the disc let escape a bluish luminous sheaf. Kinds of very powerful headlights swept the plain. Ten minutes later, the luminosity dimmed and the machine, taking height, moved away quickly and without noise. The police chief of the Sig, during his investigation, had these statements confirmed by a fellah of a nearby douar. |
[Ref. 50:] CHARLES GARREAU ET RAYMOND LAVIER:
Ufologist Charles Garreau and journalist Raymond Lavier report in their book that on october 20, 1954, in Issenheim in Haut-Rhin, according to personal file and newspaper clips, Mr. Lucien Fisch experienced the following encounter:
He was going to his workplace on motorcycle and was on the National Road RN 83 between Issenheim and Rouffach, it was still night.
There he saw a luminous apparatus arriving at high speed; which landed in a field. He was frightened and rather than to wait to see what may happen next, he went away full throttle.
[Ref. 185:] JACQUES VALLEE:
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290 Oct. 20, 1954 Issenheim (France). Lucien Fisch saw an object land near Route N83. It was luminous. (Quincy, Paris-Presse, 22 oct. 1954). |
[Ref. 223] MICHEL FIGUET AND JEAN-LOUIS RUCHON:
The two authors indicate that in Issenheim in the department of Haut-Rhin, on October 18, 1954 at 04:30 of the morning, a young man was riding his motorcycle on the National Road 83, between Rouffach and Guebwiller, when at the northern entry of Issenheim, he saw within 100 meters of the road in a field an object from 5 to 6 meters length and high of one meter.
The machine had the color of aluminium and shone in the moonlight.
One hour later, at approximately 05:30 a.m., five inhabitants of Berghoitz going to their work are said to have seen the departure of the machine at a tremendous speed.
[Ref. 1013:] CHRISTIAN VALENTIN:
Journalist Christian Valentin reports that on Monday, October 18, 1954, at 4 o'clock in the morning, a young man from Rouffach going to his work had seen a spherical object to the metal reflections, close to Issenheim, that had a diameter from 5 to 6 m, and hovered 1 m above ground-level.
Seized with panic, the young man pedalled away at full speed to his workplace where he told of his strange adventure.
The same object was seen half an hour afterwards by 5 inhabitants of Berghotz, whereas it flew away at a vertiginous speed.
[Ref. 1011] "BUHL - PAGE D'HISTOIRE":
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[...] Source: "L'Alsace" from October 1st to December 31, 1954 [...] On October 20: [...] In addition, a young man of Rouffach, Mr. Lucien Flesch, claims to have seen, whereas he went to his work and was passing near Issenheim, a spherical object with metallic reflections. This object, which had a diameter of approximately 5 to 6 m, seemed to have stopped at 1 meter above the ground. Seized by terror in front of this appearance at the very least strange, the young man pedalled at full speed and joined his workplace in Guebwiller, where he gave the account of his curious adventure to his comrades. In addition, 5 inhabitants of Bergholtz who went to their work had also seen this sphere, whereas it raised in the airs. Mr. Flesch, wanting to check if this mysterious machine had left some trace reconsidered the spot but however found nothing in particular there. |
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