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Reference number for this case: 29-Oct-54-Coulogne. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. ml1:] JOURNAL "NORD LITTORAL":
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Thursday evening, towards 1h30, coming back from driving my fiance to her parents, I took the road from Coulogne to Le Virtal to return home, when my attention was drawn by a shining object almost at the edge of the road. Puzzled, I approached and I was amazed to find myself in the presence of a metallic mass that was not there some 30 minutes ago. Being, as mos people, skeptical as of the flying saucers, I had to admit that this thing was a flying saucer. But contrary to the objects already seen, this one rather had the look of an aircraft. It was a kind of pipe equipped with port-holes and truncated at its higher part. It had four diametrically opposed tubes. Ramjets, it seemed to to me. The lower part, elevated at approximately 1 m 50 above the ground, very broad and was equipped at its base with cylindrical openings. I supposed that they were the exhaust pipes. Moreover, this rocket was equipped with four ailerons of approximately a meter of wingspan, probably intended for stabilization in flight. I decided to approach, for the rocket was to be occupied - radio control being out of question because of its presence close to the inhabited place. Hardly have I walked a few meters that a violent displacement of air volume made me fall behind. A dazzling gleam spout out of the turbines and the machine rose, initially gently, then faster and faster. In my opinion it was an experimental stratospheric rocket that landed in consequence of damage. I am ready to swear on the honor that what I saw was not the product of my imagination nor of excessive drinking. I hope that you will not believe it is some practical joke. I would wish to simply shed a little light to the public belief and to alleviate a little the minds that are over-excited by these mysterious appearances. Claude L, rue Den... Calais |
[Ref. ed1:] EMMANUEL DEHLINGER:
Thinking that the UFOs are illusory extraterrestrial machines created by the military so that people believe that were are visited by extraterrestrials, the author of the text indicates in a table that in Coulogne, in the Pas-de-Calais, on October 29, 1954 at 01:30, exists a case whose testimony is anonymous and suspicious, and its text indicates "Thursday evening, towards 1h30", thus one can wonder whether the date is not rather Friday 29th in the morning. He thus eliminates the case from its statistics.
The source is indicated as Lumières Dans La Nuit N.321 page 31.
[Ref. bo1:] BASE OVNI-FRANCE:
It is indicated in the database that in Coulogne, Pas-de-Calais, on October 29, 1954 at 01:30 a person returned from driving his fiancee from Coulogne towards Le Virval when his attention was drawn by an object shining almost at the edge of the road.
He approached and observed a kind of pipe equipped with port-holes and truncated at its higher part, and four tubes diametrically opposed. The lower part was very broad and was at 1.50 meters above ground-level. There were circular openings visible at the base, and four ailerons of one meter wingspan.
The witness continued his approach when a violent displacement of a volume of air made him fall back, a dazzling gleam spouted out of the tubes and the object rose initially gently then faster and faster.
The source is noted as being "Lumières dans la Nuit."
Not looked for yet. Most probably, some "skeptic" that the thesis of extraterrestrial visitors disturbed thought it would be clever to make up som experimental "rocket" story to advertise his thesis that the flying saucers must be secret terrestrial prototypes.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Coulogne, Pas-de-Calais, unique, road, night, Le Virval, object, machine, shining, port-holes tube, pipe, ailerons, landing, blow, propulsion, dazzling, gleam, fall, takeoff, slow, fast, maneuver
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