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Reference number for this case: 23-Sep-54-Le Puy. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. 1439:] JOURNAL "LA MONTAGNE":
This newspaper provides the following paragraph on this case, among a larger article:
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Le Puy. -- A flying cigar, one more, was observed in the afternoon of Thursday by a resident of Le Puy, around 3 p.m., in the district of Girette, where she remains, Mrs. Chamard. |
[Ref. 1438:] "FRANCE-SOIR" NEWSPAPER:
This newspaper provides the following paragraph on this case, among a larger article:
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In Le Puy: Mrs Chamard, of the district of la Girette, saw a flying object, reddish at one of its ending. |
[Ref. 1681] "LE MIDI LIBRE" NEWSPAPER:
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Flying saucersof a rugby ball and appeared to be at a considerable height." In the Meurthe-and-Moselle, several tens of workmen of "Sidelor", living the area of Lantefontaine-les-Baroches (M.-and-M.). claim to have seen six flying cigars between 04:30 and 05:00 in the sky . "We initially saw, they said, two "cigars", then afterwards, four other craft came to join the two first. All remained motionless one moment for finally disappearing instantaneously." In Le Puy, Mrs. Chaumard, resident of the district of La Girète, saw in the sky a machine having the shape of a cigar reddish glowing at an end, silent and appearing motionless. She managed to observe the machine during nearly a quarter of hour, then the "cigar" suddenly disappeared by taking altitude. The same observations were made by six inhabitants of Langeac (Haute-Loire) and several inhabitants of Gelles (Puy-de-Dome) or Clermont-Ferrand. In this area, rugby players training at the Vichy stadium saw a "flying cigar". In the AveyronFrom Villefranche-of-Rouergue in Aveyron, it is reported that an owner of Vabre-Tézac, Mr. Marre, saw a yellowish mass of color which moved away towards the south, without leaving behind any trace of smoke. The attention of Mr. Marre had been drawn by the noise of an engine. Other inhabitants of the locality also heard, from the inside of their house, the same noise, but not having come out, they did not see the weird "mass." |
[Ref. 654:] AIME MICHEL:
Aimé Michel indicates that there was an observation with a large number of witnesses in Le Puy in the Haute-Loire on September 24, 1954.
[Ref. 1410:] MICHEL JEANTHEAU:
Ufologist Michel Jeantheau closely checked the date of this observation allegedly being one of the points of an alignment of sightings pled by ufologist Aimé Michel and called "the BAVIC line" for "BAyonne-VIChy."
He notes that the newspaper "La Montagne" for September 25, 1954, dates the case of September 23, 1954, not September 24, 1954 as indicated by Aimé Michel. He also notes that the newspaper "France-Soir" for September 26, 1954, does not provide a date or a time. He found in two newspapers of Le Puy for September 25, 1954, "L'Eveil" and "Le Quotidien" that the case is dated of "Yesterday", but that usually the journalist write their article the day before it gets published. He thus concludes that the correct date for this case is September 23, 1954.
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Le Puy, Puy-de-Dôme, Chamard, Chaumard, cigar, red, la Girète, motionless, duration, manoeuver, ascension
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