The 1954 French flap:
The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this site is here.
NOVEMBER 11, 1954, LA ROCHE SUR YON, VENDEE:
Reference number for this case: 11-Nov-54-La-Roche-sur-Yon. Thank you for including this reference number
in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
REPORTS:
[Ref. 1433:] GERARD BARTHEL AND JACQUES BRUCKER:
The two authors quote the newspaper "La Vendée Libre" for November 14, 1954:
"La Roche-sur-Yon (85). Time: 7 o'clock.
"Mrs Albert, employee at La Ménagère by Mr. Morillon, has seen what is commenly reffered to
as a flying saucer."
"- I was going to the hairdresser, when, while passing the Sadi-Carnot street, I
saw a large luminous ball. It was of every colors and seemed to pass at a very
high altitude and at the speed of a lightning. I saw it above the house of Mrs
Larmanjat. It was going towards the circular place. The machine did not make
any noise and did not leave any trace of smoke behind itself."
"... Apparently it is one of these flying saucers which so puzzle our citizens."
[Ref. 1201:] "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.
EXPLANATIONS:
Not looked for yet.
KEYWORDS:
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
La Roche sur Yon, Vendée, large, ball, luminous colors, fast, silent, Albert
REFERENCES:
[-] indicates sources which I have not yet checked.
- [-] Article in the regional newspaper "La Vendée Libre", November 14, 1954.
- [1433] "La grande peur martienne", book by Gérard Barthel and Jacques Brucker, Les nouvelles Editions Rationalistes publisher, pp 132-133, 1979.
- [1201] "Les Mystères de Vendée" website, at: journaldumerveilleux.perso.cegetel.net
