An observation took place in Mégrit in the Côte-d'Armor in France apparently on October 4, 1954 at 10:00 p.m., witnessed by Henri Lehérissé, aged 23, and another person according to a reader of my website who indicates that the affair made quite an uproar in this village of his childhood.
The details of the incident are contradictory, depending to French ufologists who mentioned it briefly and obviously without investigation. For Aime Michel, it was a disc-shaped obkect described at the same time as luminous and metallic, of 2.50 meters in diameter, hovering in the air at an altitude of 50 meters, in which the witness saw agitated silhouettes.
For Jacques Vallée, it is a case of UFO landing although the UFO is not described as having landed but as hovering above a farm. No occupant is mentioned, the form flat and the UFO is metallic and emitting light.
For Charles Garreau and Raymond Lavier, the witness sees a metallic object of approximately 3 meters diameter with luminous reflections and close to one to his hangars, and when he approached fearing that there was some fire, he distinguished two choild-sized silhouettes who almost at once, "disappear" inside the machine which then goes away at high speed.
For Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, who note the disparity of the above reports, there is in addition an newspaper article they indicate to be dated one day before the observation, and it told od an apparatus in the witness' farmyard, of a diameter of 1 meter approximately, with two child-sized human forms inside.
No investigation or checking seems to have been carried out and one or the other version were recopied thereafter without more efforts.
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[Ref. am1] AIME MICHEL:
Aimé Michel reports that on October 4, 1954, in Mégrit, Mr. Henri Lehérissé went outside at about 10:00 P.M. to make his horses drink. Surprised by a strange light, he looked up and saw at about fifty meters above a hangar, motionless in the air, a flat, luminous, object of metal appearance, with a diameter he estimates as 2 meter 50. At his approach, the object quickly moved away. Mr. Lehérissé thought of having seen black shadows agitated as in transparency in the luminous mass.
[Ref. jv1:] JACQUES VALLEE:
The bolded part is the part related to this case.
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191 Oct. 04, 1954, evening, Trégon (France). Several people noticed an object hovering near a hilltop. They drove to the site, but it flew away. What seems to be the same object was seen at Megrit, 25 km to the southwest, hovering over a farm. It was described as metallic, flat, emitting light. (38; M 139) (Le Parisien, Oct. 7, 1954) |
[Ref. jv2:] JACQUES VALLEE:
Jacques Vallée indicates that on October 4, 1954, in the evening, several inhabitants of Tregon noticed an object which seemed to hover near the top of a hill. They drove to the site, but the object flew away. What seems to be the same object was also seen at Megrit, about 15 miles southwest of Tregon, hovering above a farm. It was described as metallic, flat and emitting light.
[Ref. cb1:] CHARLES BOWEN:
The author indicates that on October 4, 1954, in the evening, several inhabitants of Trégon noticed an object which seemed to hover close to the top of a hill. They went there, but the object had flown away. What seems to be the same object was also seen in Mégrit, approximately 24 kilometers in the south-west of Trégon, hovering above a farm. It was described as metallic, flat, and emitting light.
[Ref. gl1:] CHARLES GARREAU AND RAYMOND LAVIER:
The authors indicate as source their personnel file and newspaper clippings for this observation in Mégrit in the Côte-du-Nord on October 4, 1954 at 10:00 p.m.
They tell that a farmer of this village, Mr. Lhérissé, aged 23, cames out of his stables where it had just taken care of his horses, when he became pzzled by a strong gleam close to one of his hangars.
He approached, fearing a beginning fire, and then discovers a machine of approximately three meters in diameter, with luminous and metallic reflections.
Not frightened at all, but curious, he approached and distinguished two silhouettes "the size of a child," which almost at once disappeared in the machine.
The machine moved away at high speed.
[Ref. fr1:] MICHEL FIGUET AND JEAN-LOUIS RUCHON:
The two authors present the case of October 4, 1954 in Megrit by noting that two sources report two different versions of the incident, and quote these two sources. They are Aimé Michel on the one hand, and Garreau and Lavier on the other hand.
They then indicate that the sources are case 192 in Vallée's catalogue; the book "A propos des Soucoupes volantes" by Aimé Michel, page 175; the book "Face aux ET" de Garreau et Lavier pages 137-138.
They then present a third version which they indicate to come from the newspaper Le Provençal for October 3, 1954 and which tells of a "machine, in the farmyard of the witness, of a diameter of one meter approximately, inside whose two motionless human forms of the size of a child appear."
[Ref. js1:] JEAN SIDER:
Jean Sider indicates that on October 4, 1954, at 10:00 p.m., in Mégrit, Côte-d'Armor, Henri Lehérissé left his place to make his horses drink, when a strange light attracted his glance. Looking up, he saw that the light came from a flying machine hovering 50 meters above a hangar. It was a flat object of metallic appearance and a diameter of approximately 2.50 meters.
The witness claimed to have been able to distinguish black forms moving through the transparency of the luminous mass, according to a second source.
Jean Sider indicates as ufological sources " Figuet, pages 122-123" and Aime Michel, page 175.
He notes that Figuet indicates two other sources, case 192 of the Vallée catalogue, and the newspaper Le Provençal, of Marseilles, for October 3, 1954, that is to say 24 hours before the incident, thus Sider wonders whether it was a mystyping or a mixture of files.
[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:
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108. M. Leherisse observed a flat, luminous, metallic looking object, 7, or 8 ft wide, hovering 150 ft above a garage. He could see dark forms moving about like shadows in the lighted mass. As he approached it, the object rapidly moved away. Humcat 1954-74 |
[Ref. dj1:] DONALD JOHNSON:
Donald Johnson indicates that on October 4, 1954, Several people noticed an object hovering near a hilltop in the evening in Tregon, France. They drove to the site, but it flew away. What seemed to have been the same object was seen at Megrit, 25 km to the southwest, hovering over a farm; which was described as metallic, flat, and emitting light.
Donald Johnson indicates that the source are Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 139; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 217.
[Ref. pg1:] PATRICK GROSS (This website's author):
Hardly did I announce the update of this case file as it appeared in the France 1954 section of my website in my "last updates" page on August 22, 2004, that I received the following email. (I have kept for myself all the names of people whom were not yet known.)
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Subject: UFO Mégrit cotes d'Armor I remember this apparance very well. |
(Many thanks to Mr. R. for this information).
[Ref. jb1:] JEROME BEAU:
Jerome Beau indicates that on October 4, 1954, in Tregon, France, several people saw an object "seeming to fly over above a hill." They went there by car but it had disappeared. What seemed to be the same object is seen in Megrit, 25 km in south-west, flying over a farm. It is described like a metallic object, flat, emitting light.
Jérôme Beau indicates that his source is Le Parisien, October 7, 1954.
Unfortunately, while it seems that there was an observation reported by Mr. Lehérissé and another person in Mégrit; which would have been of interest, the usual incapacity of the French ufologists to seriously document the cases of the 1954 saucer flap render the case practically meaningless.
Indeed, for Aime Michel, silhouettes are seen in an hovering object, for Jacques Vallée, this is a UFO landing with no mention of occupants, and for Garreau and Lavier, objects and occupants are seen on the ground. so we have three contradictory versions by three different French ufologists.
As none of them considered it useful to publish what the newspaper of the time said, whereas it seems to have been the only source at the time, I would really like to know how anyone can now say for sure what happened in Mégrit that night.
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