The 1954 French flap:
The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this site is here.
NOVEMBER 11, 1954, AZENAY, VENDEE:
Reference number for this case: 11-Nov-54-Azenay. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
REPORTS:
[Ref. bb1:] GERARD BARTHEL AND JACQUES BRUCKER:
The two authors quote the newspaper "La Vendée Libre" for November 14, 1954:
"Early the morning in Aizenay, in spite of a thick fog, many residents were puzzled by the evolutions of a mysterious machine which sometimes launched yellow gleams, sometimes sharp red gleams."
[Ref. mv1:] "LES MYSTERES DE VENDEE" WEBSITE:
The website's author found this observation in Barthel and Brucker's book and notes the following:
- The relevant issue of "La Vendée Libre" is unfortunately not available for reading in the Departmental Archives, either because it is missing or because it is in a too bad state, and all the observations which it contains thus remain unknown except three cases among them this one. The entirety of the September 1954 month is in the same case and some observations of this period will only be known when these documents are scanned, unless this month is quite simply lost.
- Barthel and Brucker are making some incredible interpretation by modifying the dates of the observations without explaining at all how this makes sense.
- Barthel and Brucker make a curious analysis which raises doubts, since they claim that the three events are at the same date while only one is dated exactly, then they claim that there are no ufological facts on November 11, 1954, then that ufologists give false dates by mistaking the dates of publications in newspapers and the dates of the sightings, which is sometimes true but is obviously not a question here.
- The author of the "Mysteries of Vendée" presents the three cases dated as of November 11 since one is dated at November 11, and that there are no precise details for the two others. He notes that it is not necessarily the same object which was observed.
NOTES:
The location is not "Aizenay" but "Azenay."
EXPLANATIONS:
Not looked for yet. I could really be anything.
KEYWORDS:
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Azenay, Vendée, fog, craft, gleam, yellow, red, multiple
REFERENCES:
[---] indicates sources which I have not yet checked.
- [---] Article in the regional newspaper La Vendée Libre, France, November 14, 1954.
- [bb1] "La Grande Peur Martienne", book by Gérard Barthel and Jacques Brucker, Les nouvelles Editions Rationalistes publisher, pp 132-133, 1979.
- [mv1] "Les Mystères de Vendée" website, at journaldumerveilleux.perso.cegetel.net
