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Reference number for this case: End-sep-54-Charron. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. 1680:] NEWSPAPER "LE MERIDIONAL:"
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"CIGARS" AND "SAUCERS" SEEN IN THE AUVERGNECLERMONT-FERRAND. -- Six inhabitants of Langeac (Haute-Loire) saw a white gleam moving in the sky in direction of the South. A resident of Gelles (Puy-de-Dome), Mrs. Vve Melles, claimed to have seen in the sky a luminous machine of elongated form "in the kind of a cigar". The machine moved without noise. A resident of Clermont-Ferrand was picking mushrooms: he saw in the sky, at high altitude, a luminous trail "slightly coloured in pink". Rugby players training at the Vichy stadium saw a "flying cigar". ... and near La Rochelle LA ROCHELLE. -- In Charron (Charente-Maritime) three fishermen and a customs officer state to have seen, during one of these last nights, a formation of flying saucers evolving very low and flying over the shore before disappearing. |
[Ref. 1681] "LE MIDI LIBRE" NEWSPAPER:
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The sky of France is furrowed by "cigars" and "flying saucers"Paris. September 25. -- From several localities of France, the appearance of "cigars" or "flying saucers" in the sky is reported. Thus in Charron (the Charente-Maritime), three fishermen and a customs officer state to have seen during one of these last nights, a formation of flying saucers evolving very low and flying over the shore before disappearing. In Bayonne, inhabitants claim to have seen, very high in the sky, three mysterious objects of clear colour, contrasting with the sky. A police officer, Mr. Corrions, observed these three motionless machines, laid out in triangle, of slightly oval form. "They had, he said, the dimension (Read ahead on page 2) |
[Ref. 1410:] MICHEL JEANTHEAU:
While browsing his documentation to check the cases alloted to the September 24 of 1954 that presumedly formed an line with Bayonne and Vichy as reference points, Michel Jeantheau checks on a case that Jacques Vallée indicated as of September 25, 1954 in Charron.
Michel Jeantheau finds the following article in the newspaper France-Soir for September 25, 1954:
"La Rochelle, September 24 (from of our special correspondent by phone). Three bouchoteurs of Charron (Charente-Maritime) accompanied by a customs officer, claim to have seen, the other night, in the sky, a genuine flotilla of flying saucers... "
Jeantheau notes that, as the correspondant phones on September 24 and says "the other night", the case cannot be of September 25 and must have occured before September 24.
Jeantheau discovers in France-Dimanche for October 3, 1954, that the case took place at 5 o'clock in the morning. The names of the witnesses are given there, but not the exact date. It is not described as a flotilla of saucers but as a red and whiteish light.
The newspapers Sud-Ouest and the La Nouvelle République de Bordeaux et du Sud-Ouest for September 26, 1954, confirm the 5 a.m. timing and tell that it occurred on a moonlass and dark night, but the date is not indicated. The phenomenon is described there as "one dazzling ball of fire."
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Charron, Charente-Maritime, custom officer, multiple, night, formation, fishermen, low
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