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Reference number for this case: 22-Sep-54-Rueil-Malmaison. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. 654:] AIME MICHEL:
Aimé Michel reports that on September 22, 1954, at 08:30 p.m., Mrs. Louet, living in Rueil-Malmaison, on the slopes of the mount Valérien, a few kilometers in the west of Paris, was in front of her window.
She suddenly saw appearing, coming from the south, a small luminous ball which quickly approached while growing bigger and also, apparently, while taking altitude.
The small ball reached the cloudy ceiling about above mount Valérien went into the cloud and disappeared.
Mrs. Louet evaluated as two minutes approximately the duration of the phenomenon. She saw the small ball appearing in the southern sector at the time when, approximately 60 kilometers more in the south, Mrs. Gamundi looked at the small balls coming out of the great mass of clouds and to disperse in all the directions.
[Ref. 312] GERARD BARTHEL AND JACQUES BRUCKER:
The two authors indicate that in Rueil-Malmaison on September 22, 1954, at 08:30 p.m., a small fast luminous ball at high altitude was observed.
They say that one can seriously think that it was large a meteorite since the description is "identical" to a case in Dôle the same day in which the witness had told them to have seen at 08:30 p.m. a fast fugitive gleam which crossed the sky.
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