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Reference number for this case: 27-sep-54-Lanta. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. am1:] AIME MICHEL:
The French ufologist indicates in his book that on September 27 at 08:00 P.M., in Lanta, in Haute-Garonne, within 18 kilometers of Toulouse, three witnesses, including the teacher, saw a luminous disc of reddish color crossing the sky at high speed and disappearing in forty second towards the South.
He indicates as source the newspaper "La Croix" for September 30, 1954.
[Ref. fr1:] MICHEL FIGUET AND JEAN-LOUIS RUCHON:
The two authors indicate that in Lanta in Haute-Garonne, on September 27, 1954, at 08:00 p.m., a flying disc was observed.
[Ref. dj1:] DONALD JOHNSON:
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Encounters with Aliens On this Day September 27 [...] 1954 - A luminous disc-shaped object was observed in Lanta, Haute-Garonne, France at 8 o'clock in the evening. (Source: Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 92). [...] |
[Ref. lc1:] LUC CHASTAN:
Luc Chastan indicates in his database that in the Haute Garonne (31) in Lanta on September 27, 1954 at 20:00 hours, "Three witnesses, among them a teacher, saw a dazzling disc of orange color cross the sky at high speed and disappear in forty seconds towards the South. It was described as 'huge' and moved without noise."
The sources are indicated as: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet... by Figuet M./ Ruchon J.L. ** éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979" and "Les OVNI vus de près by Gross Patrick ** http://ufologie.net" and "Les Universons by Poher Claude ** http://www.premiumwanadoo.com/universons/".
[Ref. ud1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:
The website indicates that on 27 September 1954 at 20:00 in Lanta, France, "Teacher and two others watch luminous red disc cross sky, to the south for 40 seconds."
And: "A luminous disc-shaped object was observed in Lanta, Haute-Garonne, France, at 8 o'clock in the evening."
And: "A flying disc was observed. One red disc, of huge size, was observed by three witnesses in a pasture for 42 seconds (Brunet; Gadra)."
The sources are indicated as Michel, Aime, Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, S. G. Phillips, New York, 1958; Poher, Claude, Etudes Statistiques Portant sur 1000 Temoignag, Author, undated; Vallee, Jacques, Computerized Catalog (N = 3073); Hatch, Larry, *U* computer database, Author, Redwood City, 2002.
Not looked for yet. Possible meteor.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Haute-Garonne, multiple, teacher, disc, red, reddish, fast, meteor
[---] indicates sources which I have not yet checked.
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| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | January 3, 2006 | First published. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | February 1, 2010 | Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Additions [lc1], [ud1]. |
