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Reference number for this case: 5-Oct-54-Remiremont. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. 1008] EVRY SCHATZMAN:
French astrophysicist Evry Schatzman, as member of the Communist Party and of the "Union Rationnaliste", occasionally gave his opinion on subjects of topicality in the columns of the newspaper of the French Communist Party, "L'Humanité."
In a famous article, he comments "flying saucers" observations, which he allots for half to invented testimonys, and for the other half to the confusions caused by Venus, Jupiter, shooting stars, aurorae boreales, solar halos, sundogs and undersun, ball lightning, Saint-Elmo fires, mirages, and unusual reflections like those in cows' eyes at night.
He quotes as example of cases explained by a solar halo or undersun or sundog:
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[explanations on cases other than in France in 1954] On October 5, in Remiremont (Vosges), a hundred visitors of the exposition Pomologique [xposition related to apple trees culture] have followed the manoeuvers of a cigar and a disk around the sun: it was again an undersun and a halo! [explanations on cases other than in France in 1954] |
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