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SEPTEMBER 1954, ANGERS, MAINE-ET-LOIRE:

Reference number for this case: Sep-54-Angers. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

REPORTS:

[Ref. 1015] CIA:

INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROACASTS

COUNTRY: Non-Orbit DATE OF INFORMATION: 1954

SUBJET: Military - Unidentified flying objects

HOW PUBLISHED: Dail[y] newspaper DATE DIST.: 29 oct 1954

WHERE PUBLISHED: As indicated NO. OF PAGES: 5

DATE PUBLISHED: 31 Jul - 20 Sep 1954

LANGUAGES: Various SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO.:

[Blackened out] [Blackened out] THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION

SOURCE: As indicated

SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS,
31 JULY - 20 SEPTEMBER 1954

WESTERN EUROPE

[... (Reports from other countries) ...]
France

"FLYING DISK" SIGHTED IN WESTERN FRANCE -- Algiers, Alger Republicain, 4 Sep 54
A disk-shaped object was (no date given) observed by various persons simultaneously at about 2020 hours, flying over Angers and Lion-d'Angers, both in La Maine-et-Loire Department, and over chateau-Gontiers, Mayenne Department. The object was generally described as being brown and emitting a short trail of and odd hue of green. According to Claire Cordier, a nurse in Angers, the object gave off a soft drone, and its glow was reminiscent of the light in neon tubes. The phenomenon was visible for several minutes.
[... (Next reports)]

EXPLANATIONS:

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KEYWORDS:

(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)

Angers, Lion-d'Angers, Maine-et-Loire, multiple, disc, night, brown, trail, green, hue, light, neon, Claire Cordier

REFERENCES:

[-] indicates sources which I have not yet checked.

[-] Article in the newspaper "Alger Républicain", Algiers, Algeria, September 4, 1954.
[1015] "Information from foreign documents or radio broadcast - Sightings of unidentified flying objects, 31 July - 20 September 1954", report by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency, USA), pp 1-2, October 29, 1954.

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