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OCTOBER 24, 1954, BOLLWILLER, HAUT-RHIN:

Reference number for this case: 24-Oct-54-Bollwiller. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

REPORTS:

[Ref. 1011] "BUHL - PAGE D'HISTOIRE":

[...]
Source: "L'Alsace" from October 1st to December 31, 1954
[...]
October 24:
[...]
In addition, the employees of S.N.C.F. [national railway company], on duty at the railway station of Bollwiller, state to have seen during the same evening a luminous machine which evolved at a few hundreds of meters above them.

[Ref. 933] CHRISTIAN VALENTIN, "LES SAISONS D'ALSACE":

Christian Valentin notes that on Friday October 22, 1954 in the evening later than 06:30 p.m. at the station of Bollwiller, a train driver and some other people see a luminous disc moving towards the forest of the Hardt.

EXPLANATIONS:

Not looked for yet.

KEYWORDS:

(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)

Bollwiller, Haut-Rhin, SNCF, railwaymen, multiple, station, machine, object, luminous, low

REFERENCES:

[-] indicates sources which I have not yet checked.

[-] Article in the regional newspaper "L'Alsace", 1954.
[1011] "C'était en 1954 - Cela fait déjà 50 ans", article on the web page "Buhl - Page d'Histoire", at perso.wanadoo.fr/mjc.buhl/Elfaluter/1954.htm.
[933] "1954, l'année des OVNIS - Des observations par dizaines, des témoins par centaines", article by Christian Valentin in "Saisons d'Alsace", quarterly magazine, Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace publisher, Strasbourg, page 93, summer 2004.

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