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Reference number for this case: 30-sep-54-Blanzy. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. hw1:] HAROLD T. WILKINS:
The author indicates that in Blanzy in the Saone-et-Loire, two men saw a cigar-shaped thing in a freshly plowed field. It was about six feet long with a pointed yellow terminal, the rest of it was dark brown. As they approached, the fusiform object rose into the sky vertically.
[Ref. jv1:] JACQUES VALLEE:
The author indicates that on October 1, 1954, an object in the shape of a cigar flew away vertically at the time when two brick-makers approached, on the road between Blanzy and Montceau (France). It mades a noise comparable to a soft whistle.
[Ref. mc1:] MICHEL CARROUGES:
Michel Carrouges reports that on October 1, 1954, at 13:00 p.m. in broad daylight, in Blanzy in the Saone-et-Loire, two young workmen, Romain Bastiani and Bruno Buratto, riding bicycles on the road, had their attention first drawn by a light whistling sound. They then looked around and saw in a nearby field, at 100 meters approximately, a strange object in the shape of a cigar. The account in France-Soir for October 3, 1954, goes:
"The machine was approximately 2 meters long and had the width of a tree. The pointed end was yellow, the remainder of the cigar, brown. In the front of the machine, two feet which hung (sic) rested on the ground. At the time when we were going to approach the apparatus, the cigar rose vertically, at high speed, before disappearing with a very gentle whistle."
[Ref. jv2:] JACQUES VALLEE:
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170 Oct. 01, 1954 01:00 P.M. Blanzy (France). Two bricklayers, Sebastiani and Buratto, approached a cigar-shaped object 3 m long, 80 cm wide, which took off from the ground with a whistling sound. The pointed section of the object was yellow, the rest brown. From the fore part, two appendages extended to the ground. (30) (Le Figaro, Le Parisien, Oct. 2, 1954; La Croix, France-Soir, Paris-Presse, Oct. 3, 1954). |
[Ref. gl1:] CHARLES GARREAU AND RAYMOND LAVIER:
The two French authors and ufologists report an observation to Blanzy in Haute-Saône on September 30, 1954 to 13 hours.
The witnesses are two cyclists, Romain de Bastiani and Bruno Burato, aged of respectively 21 and 20, who were going to their work on the road of Blanzy, in the Saint-Louis district.
They saw a machine in the shape of a cigar in a field, Garreau and Lavier provide the witnesses report as such:
"It was a gentle whistle which drew our attention. It was hardly within 100 meters of us. It was approximately two meters long. It had the size of a large tree. At its front, it rested on the ground by two feet."
The two cyclists stopped in wonder, and see the machine then rising vertically at high speed with "a very soft" whistling sound.
A few minutes later, when they recovered their calm, the two witnesses left their bicycles on the roadside and went to the place where the machine had been, but did not find any trace on the ground.
[Ref. jv3:] JACQUES VALLEE:
Jacques Vallée indicates that on October 1, 1954 at 01:00 p.m. in Blanzy in the Saone-and-Loire, Messrs Sebastiani and Buratto, masons, approached an object in the shape of a cigar, three meters in length and 80 centimetres broad, which rose from the ground with a whistling sound. The object had its pointed part of yellow color, the remainder was of chestnut color and at the front, two appendices touched the ground.
[Ref. fr1] MICHEL FIGUET AND JEAN-LOUIS RUCHON:
The two authors indicate that on September 30, 1954, at 01:00 p.m. on the road of Blanzy in the Saone-and-Loire, in the district St Louis, two cyclists, Romain de Bastiani, aged 21, and Bruno Burato, aged 20, who were going to their work observed a machine in the shape of a cigar in a field.
"It is a gentle whistling sound which drew our attention. The object was within 100 meters of us hardly, it had the size of a large tree and its front rested on two feet."
The two cyclists stopped and then saw the machine rising vertically while emitting a "very soft" whistling sound. They go to the site of the landing, but do not find any trace.
The authors note that Vallée has the date wrong because the sighting was on a thursday, and indicate Vallée, Garreau as ufological sources and Le Figaro and Le Parisien for October 2, 1954 and La Croix, France-Soir and Paris-Presse for October 3, 1954, as newspapers sources.
[Ref. jt1:] UFO ROUNDUP - JOSEPH TRAINOR:
Joseph Trainor indicates that in France on October 2, 1954, at Blanzy in the Saone-et-Loire department, two men saw a cigar-shaped thing in a freshly plowed field. It was about six feet long with a pointed metal terminal. As they approached, the fusiform object rose into the sky vertically.
[Ref. td1:] MARK CASHMAN'S SIGHTINGS DATABASE:
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Blanzy (France). 10/1/1954 13:00 Two bricklayers, Sebastiani and Buratto, approached a cigar-shaped object 3 m long, 80 cm wide, which took off from the ground with a whistling sound. The pointed section of the object was yellow, the rest brown. From the forepart, two appendages extended to the ground. |
[Ref. dj1:] UFOCAT'S "ON THIS DAY":
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On this Day September 30 [...] 1954 - At one o'clock in the afternoon in Blanzy, France two bricklayers, Romain de Bastiani, age 21, and Bruno Burato, age 20, witnessed a partially yellow, partially maroon colored cigar-shaped object landed on the ground. They started to approach the three-meter long object when it took off from the ground with a whistling sound. The pointed section of the object was yellow; the rest of the object was reddish-brown. Two foot-like appendages extended to the ground from the fore section. (Sources: Le Figaro, October 2, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214; Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 94-95). |
Ufologists Garreau and Lavier date the case of September 30, 1954, not October 1st, 1954.
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(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Blanzy, Saône et Loire, Sébastiani, Bastiani, Buratto, Burato, object, cigar, daylight, landing, whistling, yellow, brown
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