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NOVEMBER 4, 1954, MARSEILLES, BOUCHE DU RHONE:

Reference number for this case: 4-Nov-54-Marseilles. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

REPORTS:

[Ref. je1:] JAMES EASTON:

Ufologist James Easton wrotes in 2000 that the US Navy published a photograph showing a strange cloudy formation above the town of Marseilles, a photograph which had been taken on November 4, 1954. The US Navy does not give any additional information on this photograph and does not say either if they disregard it or if they have any interest in it.

The photograph is poor bad quality because it is a scanned Xerox but one can indeed see a circular shape.

James Easton adds that many observations were reported in October and November 1954 as well as the previous and following years in France and that he plans to publish on Internet all these many observations "one more incredible than the other."

The post was accompanied with an Internet link to the scanned picture mentionned in the post but as of June 2004 the picture is not available at this address.

[Ref. bo1:] VICENTE-JUAN BALLESTER-OLMOS, "FOTOCAT 1954":

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DATE: 4 November 1954
LOCATION: Marseille (France)
FORMAT: Picture
PHOTOGRAPHER: An unnamed US Navy marine

EXPLANATION: Lenticular clouds

REFERENCES: The New York Times, July 3, 1955. M.K. Jessup, The UFO Annual (The Citadel Press, 1956), plate. Look (special issue on Flying Saucers), 1967, pages 28-29.

REMARKS: There are sources placing the case as 3 July 1950 or 7 June 1954.

[Ref. ud1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:

The website indicates there was a sighting in Marseille, France, on 4 November 1954.

The source is indicated as Keyhoe, Donald E., Flying Saucer Conspiracy, Holt, New York, 1955.

EXPLANATIONS:

Not looked for yet. Insufficient data.

KEYWORDS:

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

Marseilles, Bouches du Rhône, US Navy, photograph, clouds, cloud, disc, disk

REFERENCES:

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

[---] "The Flying Saucer Conspiracy", book by Donald Keyhoe, Holt publisher, USA, 1955.
[---] Article in the foreign newspaper The New York Times, New York City, USA, July 3, 1955.
[---] "The UFO Annual", book by Morris K. Jessup, Citaldel Press publisher, 1956.
[---] Article in Look magazine, special issue on flying saucers, USA, pp 28-29, 1967.
[je1] Post by ufologist James Easton on the discussion list "UFO Research List" à UFORL@listbot.com, dated May 29, 2000.
[bo1] "The Year 1954 in Photos", paper by Vicente-Juan Ballester-Olmos, Fondation Anomaly, Espagne, 2004.
[ud1] "4 Nov 1954 - Marseille, France", web page at the UFOdna website, circa 2007, at www.ufodna.com/uf02/uf3/023792.htm

Document history:

Version:	Created/Changed by:	Date:	Change Description:
0.1	Patrick Gross	August 10, 2004	First published.
1.0	Patrick Gross	January 18, 2009	Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Additions [ud1].

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