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Reference number for this case: Oct-54-Creil. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. 1607] "LE QUOTIDIEN DE LA HAUTE-LOIRE" NEWSPAPER:
A "MARTIAN" CAUSES A PANIC AT THE CREIL HANGARSIt was a railwayman disguised with a can, impermeable suit and a green lamp. The station of Creil saw the other evening its warehouses become the theatre of the most beautiful panic which proceeded there by memory of railwayman. One of them, indeed, a lampmaker, George Olivier, to make a good joke to his comrades, had disguised as a flying saucer pilot. Having cut a sort of houppelande in an old nylon raincoat, equipped with a helmet made in an old oil can bored of three holes, equipped with a flashlight whose bulb was painted in green, and two antennas, George Olivier penetrated in the hangars. The appearance in the night of this phantasmagoric being with the phosphorescent eyes produced an amazing effect. Railwaymen, frozen on the spot for a short while, found their courage and started to chase the gnomet. Catch it, shouted a conductor which had taken the direction of the operations, there is a newspaper which gives a premium of one million. When he was about to be circles, the Martian run around wildly, rushed at its prosecutors, utterring shouts and using the famous paralysing green ray. However, the score of prosecutors had enough forces to start a mad retreat to the station where they immediately held a war mission briefing. They were preparing a new tactic when George Olivier, without his disguize, joined them. "Did you not see the Martian?" he asked his colleagues. "Yes I saw it, I even touched it," answered Olivier. "And you did not take capture it?" "No, since the Martian, it was me." And the prankster, bursting into laughters, enjoyed a long moment the astonishment and the disappointment of his comrades. The heads of department of the merrylamp maker of the S.N.C.F. have, it appears, ambiguously appreciated the joke. But George Olivier had taken care to indulge in this prank before the normal hour of his duty. THE LANDING OF FLYING SAUCERS FORBIDDEN A CHATEAUNEUF-DU-PAPE BY CITY RULEMr. Lucien Lejeune, mayor of Chateauneuf-du-Pape, has just taken the following decree which was approved by the prefect of Vaucluse and was made executory yesterday.
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[Ref. 411] MICHEL CARROUGES:
Michel Carrouges explains that in Creil, in Oise, a railwayman manufactured a mask with old cans, various additions amon which an electric bulb painted in green. He then showed himself onr evening popping out of the corner of the station and frightened his colleagues railwaymen by lighting his false green ray. He rushed towards them while uttering shrieking vocals.
While people fled, he took advantage to quit his disguise in discretion so that he managed to get his laughs from the effects of his practical joke.
Michel Carrouges offerred this case in his chapter devoted to the hoaxes inspired by the 1954 UFO flap, indicating that it is in the newspaper France-Soir of October 29, 1954 that the story of this hoax was published for the benefit of the public.
[Ref. 687] ERIC MAILLOT:
Eric Maillot, while searching cases of witnesses paralyzed by green rays of martian zapguns, which he thinks are hoaxes inspired by the movie "the war of the world," indicates that "lucky me, I found again the tracks of three UFO cases emitting green rays." Among them, he cites:
"Creil in october 1954 (date not precise) "green ray", which is supposed to be in a book by Carrouges (Les apparitions de Martiens p163) according to an old letter by M. Figuet."
Hoax, known as hoax in the first place.
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Creil, Oise, hoax, railwayman, green ray, disguize, green
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