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Reference number for this case: 14-oct-54-Lewarde. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. 187:] JACQUES VALLEE:
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252 Oct. 14, 1954, 03:30 P.M., Lewarde (France). In Erchin Wood, Casimir Starovski, a miner, met a strange being of small height and bulky figure with large slanted eyes. Its body was covered with fur. (Anatomy 143; Magonia) |
[Ref. 152:] CHARLES BOWEN:
The author indicates that on October 14, 1954, in Lewarde in the Nord, in the wood of Erchin, a miner met a strange being of small size and massive body, with broad slanted eyes, the covered body of fur. No apparatus was described.
[Ref. 190:] MICHEL FIGUET ET JEAN-LOUIS RUCHON:
These two ufologists recall the case, and indicate that the date is October 22, 1954, the witness is a miner, Casimir Stawski, the being was completely covered with hairs, had oval eyes, the white expanding considerably around the orbits, the nose crushed at the base. It had a sort of cap on the head with a pad around the face, from which from very long hairs escaped. It did not seem to have fingers and its glowing hands closely held two "metal stems" of 30 cm approximately. "Casimir Stawski [in fact, Starovski] heard a noise of broken branches: he then sees in the middle of a bush two brilliant tubes like nickel. He approaches and distinguishes then the fawn-coloured mane, then the humanoid which approaches without a word. Casimir flees at fill speed."
They add that Jacques Vallée has the name and the date wrong, and indicate as sources "La Voix du Nord" Douai issue for October 27, 1954, "Nord-Matin" Douai issue for October 27, 1954, "Nord-Eclair" for October 27, 1954 and the GNEOVNI bulletin N.2.
[Ref. 711] JEAN SIDER:
Jean Sider refers to Michel Figuet and indicates that on October 22, 1954 at 03:30 P.M. in the wood of Lewarde, department of North, Casimir Stawski was busy collecting chestnuts 300 meters of the road which goes from Roucourt to Erclin, and approximately 120 meters of the edge of the wood of Lewarde.
His attention was suddenly drawn by a noise, and worrying about it, he noticed in the middle of a thicket a being which may have been of 1 meter 10 height, of strong stoutness, whose body was entirely covered with hairs; its nose seemed flattened at the base like that of a boxer. He carried a kind of cap on the head, and there was as a pad around its face, whose long hairs hung.
This being held in two sort of tubes or metal stems of thirty centimetres length approximately in its glowin hands. When it tried to approach the witness, this one was so much frightened that he fled without seeking to learn more.
Jean Sider also notes that Jacques Vallée, in his catalogue, spelled the name of the witness "Starovski."
[Ref. 134:] ALBERT ROSALES, HUMCAT:
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161. Location. Leward-Erchin France Date: October 14 1954 Time: 1530 Miner, Casimir Starovski, met in a country road a strange being of small height and bulky figure with large slanted eyes and a fur covered body. The midget, less than four feet tall, had a large head and wore a brown skullcap, with formed a fillet a few inches above the eyes. The eyes protruded, with very small irises, the nose was flat, and the lips were thick and red. The witness did not claim to have seen the creature emerge from a flying saucer or reenter it. He just happened to meet the strange being, which did not wear any kind of respiratory device. Before he could think of stopping him, the creature had disappeared. Humcat 1954-95 Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia Type: E |
[Ref. 985:] DOMINIQUE CAUDRON:
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Anyway, it is often enough to go to the true sources to understand. For example the "Martian" of the wood of Erchin seen by Casimir Stawski from Lewarde, was never anything else than a tramp nicknamed "capote." The residents of the area knew it, besides, like those which went to invesitgate on the premises have noted. |
Not looked for yet. A tramp according to D. Caudron. Could well have been an owl. The description stunningly fits in with a description of this bird. There is no UFO.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Lewarde, Pas-de-Calais, bois d'Erchin, bois, forest, wood, miner, Casimir Starovski, being, humanoid, owl, animal, furry, fur, eyes
[-] indicates sources which I have not yet checked.
