France 1954 -> Home

The 1954 French flap:

The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this site is here.

NOVEMBER 5, 1954, LEZOUX, PUY-DE-DOME:

Reference number for this case: 31-oct-54-Lezoux. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

REPORTS:

[Ref. 1622:] "LE PROVENCAL" NEWSPAPER:

BALLS ...

Yssingeaux (A.F.P.). A tradesman of Yssingeaux saw, Sunday evening towards 9 p.m., in the sky, a large ball finished by a tail producing sparks. The machine going down at a vertiginous pace, the observer believed that it was a plane falling in flames. But suddenly, it suspended its race, moved away and disappeared. The phenomenon had lasted from 10 to 15 minutes.
... AND FLYING CRESCENTS

Clermont-Ferrand (A.F.P.).
Inhabitants of Lézoux (Puy-de-Dome) saw an orange "crescent" moving without noise in a north-western to south-eastern direction. The phenomenon could be observed half an hour approximately.

[Ref. 207:] "LUMIERES DANS LA NUIT" MAGAZINE:

This magazine indicates that on October 31, 1954, two inhabitants of Lezoux observed an orangeish crescent slowly moving from the North-West to the North-East.

EXPLANATIONS:

Not looked for yet. The moon, to check.

KEYWORDS:

(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)

Lezoux, Puy-de-Dôme, orange, orangeish, slow, moon, crescent, multiple, duration

REFERENCES:

[-] indicates sources which I have not yet checked.

[1622] Article in the regional newspaper "Le Provençal", page 9, November 2, 1954.
[-] Article in the newspaper "La Montagne", November 9, 1954.
[207] "Les archives de 1954 pour le Puy-de-Dôme", in the ufology magazine "Lumières Dans la Nuit", #125, page 27, May 1973.

This page was last updated on April 6, 2007