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Reference number for this case: 9-Nov-54-Cousolre-le-Château. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. 1647] "LE PROVENCAL" NEWSPAPER:
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Flying saucer in the sky of the NordLille (A.F.P.). In Cousolre, close to Maubeuge, Mr. and Mrs. Leclerq stated to have seen, yesterday morning, little before the rising of the day, above a meadow distant less than 100 meters of their dwelling, a machine diffusing a reddish gleam, having sometimes the shape of a cigar, sometimes that of a disc. After having evolved a few minutes, the machine took height quickly and disappeared towards the South-west. |
[Ref. 397:] CHARLES GARREAU AND RAYMOND LAVIER:
As a part of their demonstration of their theory that there is a non-random distances relation between the landing place of saucers, the two authors mention that such a landing took place on November 9, 1954, at 6 o'clock, in Cousolre-le-Château in the North.
The authors indicate as being their source a report of the gendarmerie, and personal file.
They indicate that Mrs. Leclercq, a farmer whose farm is in the locality of Moussey, at 1 kilometer and half in the south-west of Cousolre, left home to go milk her cows. She then saw a luminous machine "having the volume of a tethered balloon" which rested on the ground at about fifty meters of her.
The authors give elements of her account:
"It appeared to me sometimes as a disc, sometimes as a cigar. It seemed to swing. When I advanced in the court, it rose in an oblique manner towards south-east, then it veered towards the south-west and quickly disappeared."
[Ref. 233] MICHEL FIGUET AND JEAN-LOUIS RUCHON:
The two ufologists and authors indicate that on November 9, 1954 at 6 o'clock in the morning, at the place called Le Moussey at 1.5 kilometers in the south-west of Cousolre, Mrs. Leclercq, farmer, went outside to go to milk the cows.
She then saw a luminous machine which was posed in a field within approximately 50 meters of her.
It changed shape while swinging. At the time when she advanced in the yard, the machine rose obliquely and "quickly disappeared."
The authors indicate Garreau and Lavier as sources.
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