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Reference number for this case: 9-Jan-54-Gemeaux. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. ci1:] CIA:
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CLASSIFICATION [Blackened out] CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
NON-ORBIT SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS, [... (Reports from other countries and France) ...] CELESTAL PHENOMENON AT GEMEAUX -- Basel, National-Zeitung, 11 Jan 54 (AFP) -- For a few seconds, inhabitants of Gemeaux, Cote d'Or Department, recently (date and time not given) observed in the sky a red ball surmounted by a triangle. The phenomenon moved on without leaving a trail. The same observation was reported by several witnesses from Nouvelles-les-Champlitte and Langras. [... (Next reports)] |
[Ref. jg1:] JIMMY GUIEU:
The author indicates that on January 9, 1954 an red of a fading red with greenish reflections was seen in Gemeaux between 6 hours and 8 hours of the morning, according to the investigator Charles Garreau.
[Ref. bb1:] GERARD BARTHEL ET JACQUES BRUCKER:
The authors indicate that the Dépêche du Berry for January 11, 1954 said of the case of Gémeaux at 7:21:
"Several people saw in the sky, during a few seconds, a red ball, surmounted of a triangle. The object, which came from the area of the Is-sur-Tille, passed without leaving of trace and was immobilized on the village before starting out again like a flash in direction of Til Chatel, to disappear at the horizon. About the same hour, the same phenomenon was observed in Neuvelle-les-Champlites and Langres."
The authors give two sketches, the one on the left is the trip of the flying saucer according to Charles Garreau, the one on the right is the trajectory of the meteor according to them:
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The authors fustigate [rightly] the ufologists who like Charles Garreau took the hours of observations given in the newspapers literaly [as if people were then provided with stop watches! These hours are generally only approximations made a posteriori] and then believed in a complicated flying saucer travel where a meteor had actually passed.
Barthel and Brucker specify that the North-West to South-East trajectory of the meteor of 7:50 is confirmed by testimonys coming from other countries.
[Ref. go1:] GODELIEVE VAN OVERMEIRE:
Godelieve van Overmeire indique qu'en 1954, le 9 janvier à France, à Chaumont, Montigny le Roy, Langres, Gemeaux, "7:45: In a few tens of seconds, at an altitude which seems relatively low to the witnesses, a fulgurating apparatus, with a capricious trajectory, vaguely adopting the form of a cigar, streaks through the beginning day with its intense light, red at thefront, clearer at the back, with greenish reflections forming a triangular beam. Mr. Thibault: 'But the more surprising is that I recognized a disc, that I distinguished by its lighter colour, at the bottom of the luminous spot, that is to say not at the head, but in the tail.' (Charles GARREAU: 'Alerte dans le ciel: le dossier des enlèvements' Alain Lefeuvre pub. 1981, p. 101,102)"
[Ref. lc1:] LUC CHASTAN:
Luc Chastan indicates that on January 9, 1954 in Gemeaux in "Côte d'or (21)" at 07:45, there was an "Observation of a discoïdal object of a blinding fading red and greenish hue forming a triangular beam. Coming from the north east and leaving towards the south east."
The source is indicated as "Les soucoupes volantes viennent d'un autre monde by Guieu Jimmy ** Fleuve Noir 1954".
[Ref. ud1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:
The website indicates that on January 11, 1954 in Gemeaux, France, there was a "Ball and triangle."
The source is indicated as Hall, Richard H., UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, Fund for UFO Research, Washington.
Not looked for yet.
The January 9, 1954, meteor.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Gemeaux, Côte-d'Or, multiple, ball, triangle, red, sky, duration
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| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | December 17, 2009 | Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Additions [jg1], [lc1], [ud1]. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | January 10, 2010 | Addition [go1]. |
