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#1953
USA, New Mexico
(cf: 1921) One day Villa suddenly felt an impulse and felt compelled to go to the beach. There he met a man 2.10m tall. This stranger knew his name and all the things about Villa's life.
The stranger's name was Riese and he came from another planet. They went to a place where there was a saucer on the water. He got on board and saw many other people. These people were extraterrestrials and had a base on the Moon as well as another on the moon of Mars, Phobos. (continued on June 16th 63) (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1953, January 8
USA, Larson AFB, Washington.
7:15 a.m. Witnesses from the 82nd Interceptor Battalion, including their leader, all on the ground. A green circular object flew towards the SW for 15 minutes with vertical and horizontal oscillating movements, under the clouds. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1953, January 9
USA, Santa Ana (California)
Early in the evening of the 9th, a B-29 bomber piloted by Captain George Madden was flying over California. His co-pilot, Lieutenant Frank Briggs, occupied the right seat. The night was clear and the two men could see Santa Ana some 4900 meters below them. The sky was empty of any other aircraft. Captain Madden was checking his onboard instruments when a sudden light caught Briggs' attention. Coming from the right, at a phenomenal speed, a V-shaped formation was rushing towards the bomber. The lieutenant shouted to warn his commander, who immediately veered left. For a fraction of a second, the strange objects abruptly braked, then abandoning their triangle formation, resumed their vertical ascent and disappeared. The apparition had lasted a total of five seconds. (Donald E. KEYHOE: "The UFO File" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.15)

#1953, January 17
GUATEMALA, near Guatemala City
3:55 p.m. Witness: J.J. Sackett. An object of golden-green color, shaped like a Goodyear balloon, twice as long as wide, flew horizontally at 400 m.p.h., stopped, then rose vertically making a new stop. Observed for 22 seconds. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1953, January 28
USA, Pt. Mugu, California.
1 p.m. Witness: the owner of Love Diving Co, R.W. Love, occupied in searching for lost radio-controlled drones, saw a flat, white disc, 18 to 20 feet in size, flying above him for 6 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner)

#1953, January 28
USA, Corona, California.
6:05 p.m. Witness: USAF T/Sgt. George Beyer. Five green spheres 25 feet in diameter flying in a V formation, then taking a single-file formation and at that moment the rear part of the objects became red. Observation lasted 12 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1953, January 28
USA, Moody, Dawson and Robin Bases
A F-86 pilot was performing a "round-Robin" flight at 9:35 PM. At an altitude of 1800 m he saw a bright light to his left and began to climb to get closer. In two or three seconds the light changed from white to red, then back to white and suddenly transformed into a perfect triangle. This triangle split into two triangles placed one above the other, then the phenomenon disappeared. Ground radar had followed the chase. (Inforespace No. 8, p. 2 - 1973 - SOBEPS) It was around 9:35 PM and the pilot thought it was a star or another aircraft. Having climbed to 3300 meters he noticed that the spot was lower than him. At that moment the strange phenomenon changed to orange before becoming bright white again, the color changes lasting a total of fifteen minutes. After that, the object changed shape; from cylindrical it became triangular before splitting into two triangles that overlapped. Finally, the whole thing suddenly disappeared, as if someone had blown out the candle. (Moustique No. 1507 of 12.12.54, p. 17, article by Bert Brem)

#1953, January 29
USA, Conway (South Carolina)
It was past one o'clock in the morning. An ex-intelligence officer of the USAF, Lloyd C. Booth, was returning to his parents' farm. He was approaching the house when he heard strange noises: the pigs penned up in their enclosure behind the barn were grunting and the horses were rearing in the stable. He told the authorities that after searching he discovered a disk hovering at low altitude above a clump of trees nearby. It was light gray in color and was radiating a luminescence as if it were lit from within. It had the shape of a half egg. Booth headed towards the object and fired several shots from his .22 long rifle. He could hear the sound of the impacts before the object disappeared from his sight. Following this incident, numerous cows and other livestock died inexplicably. (Henry DURRANT: "The UFO File" - Laffont 1973 p. 104)

#1953, February 17
USA, Port Austin. Michigan.
10:04 p.m. Witnesses: 2 officers and three airmen from the USAF AC&W.; Visual and radar observation. The object seen with the naked eye appears to be brighter than a star and changes colors. It is seen flying slowly for 5 minutes until 10:09 p.m. The radar received an unidentified echo at 10:08 p.m. from an object moving in the same direction and at the same speed for 17 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#February 18, 1953
USA, Los Angeles
(cf: December 13, 52 Desert Center) Driven by an inner impulse, Adamski went to Los Angeles and was approached by two extraterrestrials who live incognito among us. On the outskirts of the city, the saucer with the Venusian was waiting for him. Adamski got on board and was taken aboard the "mothership", he had a vision of the universe and a master answered his questions. (continued on April 21, 1953) (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1953, February
FRANCE, Biache St Vaast-Fresne les Montauban
At around 6:40 PM, Mmes d'Arras, Reignier and Mlle Tellier were walking back from the station on D 43. A pale blue light, surrounded by small candle flames, then an ovoid object emitting pale blue flashes, at the speed of a cyclist, approached the electric wires in a horizontal trajectory, while yellow-clear sparkles zigzagged constantly up to 2m from the witnesses and stuck to the electric wires afterwards. A loud buzzing sound was audible. (M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni: le premier rapport complet..." ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 65)

#1953, 11 March
USA, Yuma (Arizona)
Various shooting exercises were taking place on the Yuma base field. A group of about twenty officers were participating. Suddenly, to the east of the field, twelve extremely bright objects emerged at low altitude at a fantastic speed. Before the controller had recovered from his surprise, the objects were flying over the base at several thousand kilometers per hour, describing a large circle and passing again over the field at reduced speed. Then they accelerated lightning fast and disappeared while gaining altitude. They were discs of metallic appearance, moving without noise and without leaving any trails. (...) [note from vog: probably again reliable first-hand information, communicated only to a Frenchman?] (Charles GARREAU: "Alert in the Sky: The Abduction File" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p.31)

#1953, March 14
JAPAN, north of Hiroshima
11:45 p.m. Witnesses: radar and visual observation by 101 members of the crew of a P2V-5 patrol plane. A group of 5 to 10 colored lights, gathered in the sky over a distance of 90 to 100 feet, flew slowly to the left of the plane. The group was also targeted on radar for 5 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1953, March 27
USA, Mt. Taylor, New Mexico.
7:25 p.m. Witness: the pilot of a F-86 jet fighter flying at 700 m.p.h..
An orange glowing circle flew at 900 m.p.h., and executed three large circles. The pilot chased the object for 4 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1953, Spring
SWITZERLAND
The machine tool factory Oerlikon, Buhrle and Co. gave birth to a DCA rocket with an nitric acid propellant. It has a length of 5 meters, a takeoff weight of 250 kg and a combustion end speed of 750 meters/second. The Oerlikon rocket takes off from a mobile launch chassis, it is guided by a director beam and can fight airplanes at altitudes of up to 20 kilometers. The tests carried out in the spring of 1953 would have gone satisfactorily. ("The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" -Hans K. Kaiser, Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 123, 124)

#1953, April
BRAZIL, Angatuba
(cf. November 52) One Sunday morning, Dino Kraspedon's doorbell rang. It was an extraterrestrial! He was about 1m 80 tall. He spoke Greek and Latin, but spoke Portuguese very well and English a bit less well: he had an accent. He said he came from Ganymede, a satellite of Jupiter. From 1953 to 1959, Kraspedon claimed to have regular conversations with this entity, sometimes even in public places, in the street, etc... . (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1953, April 21
USA
(cf: February 18, 53) Adamski returns to Los Angeles and meets the extraterrestrials in the hotel lobby. He is taken to a larger vessel with which he makes the journey to the mothership of the "Saturn" type. There is a large laboratory. Then a master comes to explain things to him. (following September 1, 53) (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1953, May 1
CANADA, Goose AFB, Labrador
11:35 p.m. Witnesses: the pilot and radar operator of an F-94 jet interceptor as well as the operator at the control tower. A white light evaded interception for 30 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1953, May 16
BELGIUM, Bouffioulx (Hainaut)
At 8:15 PM many people (note from vog: this seems inaccurate, there was only one witness, the photographer in question) from the region of Bouffioulx saw a classic flying saucer pass in the sky: flat, circular, luminous. At one moment it stopped abruptly by tilting. For a few moments it stayed like this, offering the witnesses its beautiful bright round face: almost unique in the whole history of saucers, a detonation accompanied its maneuver, followed by a kind of prolonged vibration similar to that of a sheet of metal that is shaken. (...) ("Lueurs sur les Soucoupes Volantes", Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME, 1954, p. 202) Hermann Chermanne, photographer (of the newspaper "Le Peuple"), took two striking shots of a strange phenomenon. Reproduced by the Belgian daily "Le Peuple" of May 28, 1953.<br/><br/>
That evening around 8:15 PM, Hermann Chermanne was joining his home when he suddenly had his attention drawn by an unusual noise that strangely resembled the prolonged vibrations of a sheet of metal. Raising his eyes he saw a long white trail that was left behind by a mysterious object flying at great speed and heading towards the working-class city of the Blanche Borne district. Our reporter had time to trigger his camera once before the object, which had stopped in the sky, turned to then present, it seems, a resplendent sphere surrounded by a whitish halo and satellites that seemed to go in all directions. This phenomenon lasted about ten seconds, then the disc got back in the field before completely disappearing. In the sky the long white trail disintegrated under the effect of the wind. In the region of Bouffioulx and even beyond, many were those who perceived, at the precise moment of the appearance of the phenomenon, a deep and violent explosion. (Henry DURRANT: "Le dossier des OVNI" - Laffont 1973 p. 149- 175-176) Hermann Chermanne was photographing a picturesque site near Bouffioulx 7 km southeast of Charleroi in Belgium, when an astonishing roar "like the sound of a sheet of metal being shaken" made him turn. He then saw in the sky a "shining object, surrounded by a whitish halo, from which white particles were falling". (Yves NAUD: "Les E.T. et les OVNI dans l'histoire" Famot 1977, volume 4, p. 199) Around 5:30 PM he stopped to rest. As he prepared to photograph a flock of sheep... Etc.. [IN REALITY: this photo would be a hoax cfr "Science Interdite - journal 1957-1969" Jacques Vallée, O.P. Editions 1997, p. 121] (A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: «Le dossier secret des OVNI», ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p.190, 191)

#1953, May 20
USA, Brush Creek (California)
Two miners, John Q. Black and John Van Allen reported that an object with a tripod landing gear had landed on a sand strip around 6:30 PM. A dwarf with wide shoulders filled a shiny bucket with water, carried it into the craft and, seeming to notice Black, jumped into the craft which took off emitting a whistle. A second being was inside the craft, who took the bucket that was handed to him. (Continued on June 20, 1953) (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet..." ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 100, 101)

#1953, May 22
USA, Tujunga (Los Angeles)
Sara Shaw and Jan Whitley were living in an isolated cabin. They were sleeping when a blue beam woke them up at 2:20 AM. At the same time, an eerie silence descended. Jan got out of bed intending to get dressed to go outside and see what was happening, but she felt paralyzed, unable to think and having difficulty breathing. Sara shouted: "Jan, why are you standing there without moving?" But she saw that she herself had one foot on the ground and was sitting, while her last memory was that she had stayed in bed. She looked at the clock and couldn't believe her eyes: 4:20 AM! She too had difficulty breathing. She panicked and thought there was a problem with the butane. They both ran to the kitchen, but everything was in order. They went outside. No suspicious smell, but Jan could make out a whitish, vaporous figure with long, flowing hair. This didn't even intrigue her and she went back inside to take care of the dogs and cats. Years later, under hypnosis Sara had memories of being abducted on board a UFO and of a medical visit. Jan, on the other hand, got no such results under hypnosis. (Marie-Thérèse de BROSSES: "Enquête sur les enlèvements E.T." - Plon 1995, p. 248, 249)

#May 23, 1953
USA, Burban (California)
Orféo Angelucci, in a car, around midnight, was at the level of Forest Lawn Drive when he noticed a red light on the hood of the car. He stopped on the side of the road and saw a red disc in the sky. At that moment, two green lights left the disc and placed themselves 5 meters away from him. The red object moved away and remained visible from a great distance. It was then that Orféo heard a voice, which first advised him to stay calm and that no harm would come to him. It also declared that it was necessary to gradually prepare the inhabitants of the Earth for the visit of inhabitants of other worlds. It said in particular that "daily the Earth is observed by a great number of flying saucers, from a few decimeters to several hundreds of meters (...) and that there are innumerable worlds which all possess a different degree of evolution which already visit the Earth." Orféo claimed that the voice spoke to him for 3/4 of an hour before the green lights returned to the red disc. (Pierre DELVAL: "Contacts of the 4th Type" - De Vecchi 1979, p. 98, 99)

#1953, May 23
SOUTH AFRICA, Cape Town
The South African Air Force Command announced that on May 23, 1953, radar operators detected an unknown craft that made six passes over Cape Town at a speed clearly exceeding 2000 km/h. On each pass, the craft remained in the radar range for 16 seconds, at a distance ranging from 11000 to 15000 meters and at an altitude from 1600 meters to 5000 meters. ("Lights on Flying Saucers" - Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME 1954, pages 145, 146)

#1953 (or 1954) May,
FRANCE, Cagnes sur Mer
Mr. P. Cavallo, a projectionist, was returning from work around 0:30am along the deserted Avenue Ziem, lined with hedges and bushes on either side. He took the opportunity to collect snails that were out in the night dew. He was suddenly surprised by the appearance in the sky of a bright orange cigar-shaped object, with blue sparkles inside, flying at low altitude from south to north in a time span of between 20 and 30 seconds, leaving behind an orange tail of sparks. All this in complete silence.
Stunned, the witness stayed in place for about forty seconds. It was then that he felt a presence to his right and, turning his head, he saw a face that seemed human, although very strange. Its expression was like a "beatific smile". It had a pale complexion, a bald head, and blue eyes. He could not make out the body hidden in the bushes. With his bicycle in hand, the witness stared at it for a few seconds, wondering who it was - "maybe a madman?" - and what attitude to take. However, fear quickly overcame Mr. Cavallo, who, without further ado, jumped on his bicycle and sped down the descent of Avenue Ziem. (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet..." ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 645, 646)

#1953, June 20
USA, Brush Creek (California)
(cf: May 20, 1953, same location) At exactly 6:30 pm, second landing of the saucer at 50 m from the witnesses, and repetition of the same scenario. (Charles BOWEN: "In Search of Humanoids" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 177) At the second encounter, in the same mining concession, both of them had gone calmly to tell the police that they had seen a little man dressed in a kind of parka coming down from a silver craft resting on the ground on a tripod. The astonished miners had seen the dwarf take water from a bucket. But, seeing himself observed, said dwarf had quickly returned to his craft which had immediately left with a roar. (Leonard STRINGFIELD: "General Alert UFO" ed. France - Empire, 1978, p. 121)

#1953, June 24
JAPAN, Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands.
11:30 p.m. Witnesses: crew of a USAF KB-29 aerial refueler. On radar, an unidentified target approached up to 5 miles, twice, during the 2 minute observation. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1953, June 24
GREENLAND, Simiutak, Greenland.
11:30 a.m. Witness: Weather Observer A/2c R.A. Hill. A flat red triangle and was rotating for 15 seconds, then slowly ascended for 5 minutes, before disappearing from view. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1953, July 1
SPAIN, Villares del Saz (Cuenca)
Observation at around 2 pm. Three small men came out of a hatch in the upper part of the UFO, approached the witness, and spoke to him. One of them gave the child a light tap on the cheek and then went back into the object, which flew away at great speed. (Henry DURRANT: "First Investigations of ET Humanoids" - Laffont 1977 - pp. 175 and 179) A 14-year-old illiterate cowherd, Maximo Munoz Hernaiz, was sitting near the cows when he heard a faint whistling sound at around 1 pm, but he didn't turn around. When he did, the machine had already landed. It was about 1.3 m tall and about 30 cm wide. Thinking it was a balloon, he went to take it, but a door opened and small guys started coming out. They were tiny (65 cm) with yellow faces and narrow eyes. The "thing" had a door at its top and the small guys jumped out. There were three of them, who surrounded him, and they spoke but Maximo didn't understand. The little guy who was in front of him gave him a slap on the face and then they went back into their machine, hooked up to something, and jumped. They were dressed just like fairground musicians, in blue clothes, with a flat hat with a visor in front and they had a metal plate on their arm. The machine flew away very quickly like a rocket. - There were traces on the ground, examined by the gendarmerie - (Charles BOWEN: "In Search of Humanoids" - J'ai Lu 1974, pp. 93 to 97)

#1953, July 16
Canada, Saint Urbain (Quebec)
It is nine o'clock in the morning. It is a clear day, without clouds
(...) Little Jacques Simard, twelve years old (...) is accompanied by five
of his companions and they go to pick raspberries on the
slope of the hills of the farm of Ernest Simard, uncle of Jacques. (...)
Suddenly a sound of frantic galloping reaches them. Whinnying, horses
come down in terror the slope of the hill (...) under the influence of
great panic. At the same time Jacques sees five or six metal discs
heading towards the sun. The young boy notices that they are
elliptical, that they are shiny like polished metal. (...) (Jean FERGUSON: "Enigmes du temps présent" ed. Leméac,
Ottawa, 1979, p. 69, 70)

#1953, July 31
POLAND, Wollin
At around 7pm a metallic object thirty meters in size was observed by five Poles and two German workers, as it landed in a field near a railway track. It was spherical and surrounded by a flat disk with several openings or apertures. (Jacques Vallée, Chronicle of Extra-Terrestrial Appearances case no. 114) (Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "UFOs in the USSR and Eastern Countries" - Laffont translation 1976 - p. 259)

#1953, Summer
USA, Arizona
A flying saucer crashed in the Arizona desert and the bodies of the five occupants were immediately loaded, in special coffins, filled with carbonic ice, on board an airplane that arrived the same evening at Wright Patterson, where they were stored secretly. These humanoids, one of which was female, had large heads shaped like an inverted pear, with deep eyebrow arches joined in a kind of awning, large open eyes, holes instead of nose and ears, and skin of a grayish brown. These strange beings had long arms, with four slightly webbed fingers on the hands and no fingers on the feet. Their sexual parts were visibly atrophied, as if they had not used them for a long time.(...) One of these humanoids was still alive when the rescue team arrived, but all efforts to save him were in vain. This flying saucer, found almost intact, had been spotted by the radar of Mount Palomar as it crossed California, obviously in distress and rapidly losing altitude and the radar operators, who knew exactly where it had fallen, had immediately alerted a nearby air base which had immediately sent a rescue team. (Maurice CHATELAIN: "The Messengers of the Cosmos" - Laffont 1980, p. 26)

#1953, Summer
ROMANIA, near Cluj
Roman biologist, Alexandru Sift, was a 16 year old high school student in 1953. He saw a luminous ball descend from the sky and fall into a bush. When he approached the landing site, he was very surprised: nothing seemed to remain of this object several meters in diameter. Suddenly, as he began to move the branches with his stick, it became invisible, as well as part of his hand. At the same time, the sole of his shoes became hot and a cold push, acting on his whole body, forced him to withdraw. Very frightened, Sift ran back to town. (Gheorghita 1975) (A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: "The Secret File of UFOs", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p. 220, 221)

#1953, August 3
USA, Amarillo, Texas.
12:04 p.m. Witness: Control Tower Chief C.S. Brown. A translucent, round, light-reflecting object flew horizontally, stopped for 7 seconds, flew quickly and stopped again, and was joined by a similar object. They flew away, diverging their trajectories after 56 minutes of observation. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1953, August 5
USA, near Black Hawk (South Dakota)
At 8:05 PM an object in the shape of a ring, red in color, caused confusion in the minds of several witnesses. Eslworth's radar then targeted the object which was flying towards Rapid City, while an F-84 interceptor was sent for interception and managed to get within 3 miles. At that moment the UFO disappeared at an incredible speed, but when the pilot returned to base, the UFO was still following him! Another jet then took off which finally made the unknown object go away. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 210) It was in 1953 that one of the most mysterious cases I have had the opportunity to study occurred. On the night of August 5, several people from Black Hawk, in South Dakota, reported that they had seen several strange objects in the sky. Unidentified echoes appeared on the radar screen of a nearby air base. An F-84 jet fighter, guided by radio, took off in their direction. Soon its pilot reported that he saw one, brighter than the brightest star, and going twice as fast as his plane. When he chased it, the glow disappeared completely. On the ground, five civilians had witnessed the pursuit. They confirmed the pilot's words. A little later, a second F-84 was sent towards the object, which continued to appear on the ground radar. This time, the pilot saw a shape, which emitted a variable luminosity. When he rushed in its direction, the indicator of his sight lit up: the on-board radar had detected the target, but immediately, the thing took altitude and flew north. The air base alerted the observation center of Bismarck, in North Dakota, 350 km away. A sergeant went up on the roof, saw the object which soon disappeared. I took care of this case myself, without being able to find an explanation. (Charles GARREAU cites Dr. Allen Hynek in "Flying Saucers: 20 Years of Investigation Mame 1971- p.52-53)

#1953, August 6
USA, Hawaii
On August 6, 1953, from the top of an airplane, the existence of a mysterious space platform was discovered on one of the Hawaiian islands. None of the world powers knew of the existence of this space base. The pilot who discovered it said it was huge, bluish and metallic. The search order immediately launched yielded nothing; the base had disappeared. (S. DELLO STROLOGO: "What Governments Hide from You About Flying Saucers" - De Vecchi 1975- p. 135)

#1953, August 21
MEXICO, Ciudad Vallejo
Salvador Villanueva states that one of the two humanoids in his presence seemed to understand Spanish while the other spoke it but with a peculiar accent stringing words together without regard for tone or punctuation. (Henry DURRANT: "First Investigations of ET Humanoids" - Laffont 1977 - p. 186 which says August 20) At 6 pm, taxi driver Villanueva was under the chassis of his broken-down vehicle on the main road when he saw two pairs of legs covered with something that looked like "seamless gray velvet". Standing up, he saw two pleasant-looking men measuring 1.35 m, dressed in a one-piece garment from neck to toes. They wore wide, shiny, perforated belts, metal collars around their necks, and small, shiny black boxes on their backs. Under their arms they held "helmets like those of pilots or American football players". Their small size was not too strange in Mexico, where many Indians are very small, and he concluded that they were aviators, probably from a neighboring South American republic. (...) When it started to rain, they accepted the driver's invitation to take shelter with him in the vehicle. During the night, various remarks began to worry Villanueva and finally this statement came: "We come from a very distant world, but we know a lot about yours". At dawn he went with them to their craft, which was parked in a clearing 500 meters from the road, and noticed that although they had crossed a muddy terrain in which he sank deeply, the legs and feet of the little men remained clean: "when their feet touched puddles of mud their belts shone and the mud moved away" He was invited to board, but Villanueva spun around and ran away. (Charles BOWEN: "In Search of Humanoids" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 109, 110) (...) standing up, he saw an apparition, a little man barely 1.20 m tall. He asked if he knew Mexico, but the entity gave him a description of his planet. Villanueva was invited on board, accepted, and took a trip into space, he thinks he visited the planet Venus. When he returned to the city, his appearance was so strange that the person where he was going to order the part for his taxi, thought he had smoked marijuana. (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1953, August 23
NEW GUINEA, Port Moresby
At 11:00 AM, Mr. T.P. Drury observed a cylinder in the sky and filmed it. (Flying Saucer Review No. 4 - 1971) An object in the shape of a disc emerged from a cloud and made a right-angle turn. T.C. Drury, Deputy Director of the Civil Aviation Department of New Guinea, was a fortunate witness as he had a camera in his hand. He took a film of 94 frames showing the object performing apparently intelligent maneuvers. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p 211)

#1953, August 24
USA, Giant Rock, California
(cf: July 18, 52) At 2am, Van Tassel sees the extraterrestrial, although none of his dogs barked. At 100 meters, a round, shiny saucer is barely 3 meters off the ground. The stranger says: "My name is Solganda." The conversation is strange, as Van Tassel barely thinks of a question before Solganda already answers it. Van Tassel can take a ride in the saucer, which runs on a "crystal battery". The extraterrestrial also explains to him that humans were only animals and that it was thanks to them that they received spirit. (continued: December 29, 54) (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1953, August
USA, Bridgeport (Connecticut)
The organizer of the experience, (telepathic contact with extraterrestrials) Albert K. Bender, receives a visit from three men dressed in black (M.I.B.) and quite intimidating: "..their faces were unpleasant to look at. Their eyes shone like small flash lamps.. a bluish radiance enveloped their whole body.. I could not see their hands, covered by black gloves" (Jean-Gabriel GRESLE: OVNI, a pilot speaks, ed. Guy Trédaniel, 1993, p. 43,44) (following November 5, 1953)

#1953, August 31
FRANCE, Vernon (Eure)
At 4 o'clock, many people living in Vernon (Eure) witnessed a quite impressive spectacle. Among the witnesses was a police officer, Mr. Henry Buch. (...) "As I was in the courtyard of my house, with my wife and my young son, our attention was drawn to the roar of a jet plane flying over the town. Having spotted it, we were astonished to see an object - coming from a higher altitude - flying at a dizzying speed towards the ground after crossing the route taken by the plane. To our great amazement, the object stopped its course and remained suspended in the air. After a few seconds of immobility, it took off again, describing circles above the town. This maneuver was repeated several times; it was then that, following the different phases of its evolution, we could discover the presence of three other craft, which were also moving at a staggering speed, to the four cardinal points of the locality. "These three saucers were at a much higher altitude than the first one. Their luminosity was so intense that we soon had to put on sunglasses to follow their march in the sky. As we asked our landlord to come and witness the phenomenon, my wife spotted a group of "saucers", six in number, completely motionless at an approximate height of 5 to 6,000 meters. The strange evolutions lasted about ten minutes and then, suddenly, there was no trace of "saucer" in the absolutely clear sky. (...) (Jimmy GUIEU: "Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 p 132-133)

#1953, late summer
USA, Los Angeles
(cf: October 52) Angelucci is taken in an Astrolabe to his
extraterrestrial friend, who predicts the worst catastrophes for the year
1986. (note from vog: we saw nothing, did Angelucci die that
year?) (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1953, September 1
USA, unspecified
(cf. April 21, 53) Adamski meets the extraterrestrials in a bar. They answer a series of questions he has prepared. Then, after playing belote, he takes the saucer to meet the master on board the mothership. (continued and concluded August 23, 1954) (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1953, September 4
FRANCE, Tonnerre
A woman saw at 9:30 PM, two objects on the ground and three small men of 150 cm in height with an enormous head, wearing a helmet and boots. They ran in the direction of the devices. One entered the elongated object of 5 m in length by 1.5 m wide which extended wings like a butterfly. It put itself in a vertical position, resting on a tripod and took off, as well as the spherical object where the two other creatures had taken place. Traces were found at the location of the observation. (Jacques VALLEE: "Chronicles of E.T. Appearances" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU - p. 256, 257) The witness takes the air on the terrace which dominates the city. When standing up to return to her hotel she sees, near a chapel, two objects, one round, the other elongated. Then three small characters of about 1m50 appear, wearing helmets and boots, running as if they did not touch the ground. Two enter the sphere, the other in the elongated object inside which the witness sees 2 or 3 other beings through a transparent opening. The sphere has about 3 m in diameter and seems to be lit from below. At mid-height it is surrounded by a flat annular part which starts to turn very quickly while becoming luminous. The elongated object measures 4 to 5 m in length by 1.50m in height. It passes to the vertical position resting on the ground like on a tripod. Simultaneously, in a noise resembling a jet of steam, the two devices rise in a few seconds and disappear in the stars. Traces on the ground. (GARREAU and LAVIER: "Facing the Extra-terrestrials" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 46, 47)

#1953, October
USA, unspecified location
LAUNCH OF HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOONS, STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF COSMIC RAYS ON BLACK MICE. (GESAG, Launches: "Caldin 1960, 103")

#1953, October 6
GREAT BRITAIN, Norwich
At 7:15 in the morning, members of the astronomical society observed for 30 seconds, an engine in the shape of a bell with a series of portholes that projected rays of light. Below there was another source of light. The engine changed its position and flew off to the north at an incredible speed. (Inforespace n° 8 p. 5)

#1953, October 19
USA, between Philadelphia and Washington
Around midnight a D.C. 6 of American Airlines piloted by Captain J. L. Kidd had left the Philadelphia airport fifteen minutes earlier for Washington and was flying at 2400 m. There were some clouds but the moon was shining brightly. The plane was approaching the Conowingo Dam on the Susquehanna. It was the co-pilot who saw the object first: a shining thing reflecting the light of the Moon. It did not look like an airplane and did not behave like one. It had no navigation lights. At the sight of this thing, Captain Kidd reduced his speed. The thing was motionless. The D.C. 6 was quickly approaching. "Give it a spotlight!" The co-pilot already had his hand on the switch. The two landing lights soon shone their white beams on the object. A blinding white beam of light shot from the object towards the plane and Kidd realized that the thing was rushing towards him. He had no time to warn the passengers. He pushed the wheel forward. The four-engine plane dived and the passengers were thrown into the air, the dive forming a loop in reverse. At 1500 m Kidd pulled his plane out, and the passengers fell back into their seats and armrests. The pilot called National Airport and reported the accident. He was told that there were no other planes in the air and... that there would be medical personnel upon arrival. (Frank EDWARDS: "Les S.V. affaire sérieuse" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 63, 64)

#1953, October 24
USA
FIRST FLIGHT OF THE SINGLE-SEAT F-102 DELTA JAGGER FIGHTER OF GENERAL DYNAMICS (CONVAIR). In 1948 CONVAIR already flew its first supersonic Delta (XF-92A). (...) The rear of the F-102 is elongated and large, and the shape of the F-102 Delta thus obtained is impressive: wingspan 11.6 meters, length 20.83 meters (this is the ancestor of the F 15, F 16 etc..) Of the first model, 24 copies were transformed by the SPERRY firm into radio-controlled aircraft. ("Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft" - Bill Gunston - Elsevier-Séquoia 1979)

#1953, October
USA
Albert K. Bender, editor of the magazine "Space Review", in his October 1953 issue mentioned that he had found the key to the mystery of flying saucers, but he could not disclose the affair, since he had been forbidden to do so. He ended his article by warning ufologists to stay vigilant. After that, Bender's magazine was no longer published. Later, in an interview, Bender claimed that three "men in black" had ordered him to stop any publication on UFOs. He would have complied, as he had a real fear of these men. Later he published a book "Flying Saucers and the Three Men in Black."

#1953, November 5
USA, Bridgeport (Connecticut)
(cf. March 15, 1953 and August 1953) (K.Bender) The International Flying Bureau and its foreign branches suddenly cease their activities. Its president simply tells the responsible people: "The secret being known, any research becomes useless". He voluntarily enters a psychiatric clinic (???? it must REALLY be crazy to do that...) and will not reappear until ten years later, greatly diminished. (Jean-Gabriel GRESLE: OVNI, a pilot speaks, ed. Guy Trédaniel, 1993, p. 44)

#1953, November 28
ARGENTINA, Guapore "Los Patos"
Pedro Serrato and Francisco de Teixeira saw in the bay of Los Patos a strange disc-shaped apparatus inside which they were able to distinguish six people of average size, whose hair and skin were red. (A. RIBERA: "These Mysterious Ufos" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 227)

#1953, December 17
SWEDEN, Halsingborg
Captain Christiansson, a former RAF fighter pilot, was flying a DC 3 between Malmoe and Stockholm. Suddenly, above Halsingborg, the event occurred. (It was then 14:30 local time): "We were flying at 2,000 meters altitude," declared Captain Ulf Christiansson, "when I saw something that I initially thought to be a jet fighter. Its silhouette was very thin and it approached us at a terrifying speed. In a few seconds, it passed under my DC 3 at an altitude of about 1250 m. I immediately asked my mechanic, Olle Johansson, to observe it, and together we later compared our impressions. I had never seen anything like it. It was a perfectly symmetrical, spherical-looking object, something like a robot. Of a metallic white color, it left no apparent trail in its course above the clouds. Visibility was excellent. We were flying north with the sun on our right when the saucer cut across our route in a northeast direction. I must say that I had never believed in stories of flying saucers or other such objects until now. But I am eager to know now the result of the investigation opened by the Swedish Air Force. (Jimmy GUIEU: "Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 p. 150-151)

#1953, December 28
USA, Marysville, California.
11:55 a.m. Witness: Yuba Airport Manager, Mr. Dick Brandt.
A saucer with a bright blue light reflecting off the building flown over, hovered during the one and a half minute observation.
(Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner)

#1953, December 29
RHODESIA, Bulawayo
Mr. Barney Wayne photographed this mysterious craft: (note from vog: round, saucer-shaped, apparent width according to the buildings flown over, about 4 meters, so on the 19cm x 13 cm photo, the UFO measures 2.2cm by 6mm) (Moustique n° 1508 of 19.12.54, p. 15, article by Bert Brem)

#1953
FRANCE, Feignies (Nord
At around 11 o'clock, Mrs. S. went to the grocer's, by a small sunken path. Suddenly she observed 6 to 8 orange balloons, but not luminous, which followed the path, progressing by leaps, without touching the ground. They passed very close to the witness who even thought of bringing one back for her children, but a feeling of mistrust prevented her. The night before, around 9:30 pm, she had observed a strange moon, bigger than normal, of a brilliant white and without the characteristic shadows of our satellite. (L. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, le premier rapport complet..." ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 64, 65)

#1953
USA
In 1953, a squadron of AD-35s was performing combat maneuvers when a large rocket came towards them. After a rapid deceleration, bringing it to the speed of the planes, it stabilized at about 300 m from them. The squadron commander gave orders over the radio for the planes to get to the same altitude. Instantly, the UFO tilted in such a way that its back pointed outside the attack axes of the planes. An enormous flame shot out. The craft immediately took on a considerable speed. Without this tilting movement, the powerful jet would undoubtedly have killed some, if not all of the pilots. (Donald E. KEYHOE - 1973 - Trans. "Les Etrangers de L'Espace" Ed. France-Empire coll. Press Pocket 1975 p. 61)

#1953
GRANDE BRETAGNE, Coltishall, Norfolk
In 1953 I was based at R.A.F. Coltishall, in Norfolk, as a Meteor night fighter jet pilot. During one of our routine night flights, one of our crews, Captain F/OJ. Allison, and radar operator F/OI. Heavers, reported the observation of a cigar-shaped UFO, with an inner green light, visible through windows. Upon entering the flight room, they were both very excited after the landing. They claimed that the object must have been extraterrestrial due to its speed and unusual shape. The next day we learned that another night fighter jet crew from the 85th Squadron, flying near their base at R.A.F. Maidstone, in Kent (over 100 miles from Coltishall) had reported an identical incident, occurring just three minutes after that of our crew. Three minutes to cover a distance of 100 miles, that means the UFO was travelling at around 2000 m.p.h., a speed far beyond the capability of an English aircraft at that time. (...) (Gordon W. Cammell, R.N.Z.A.F./R.A.F., Retired, on the Internet in May 1997)

#Inaccurate date, between 1953 and 1955
ENGLAND, Ashford, Kent
Two men in a truck, travelling from Peterborough to Ashford, stopped around 2:30am to take a rest. They had passed Ashford by about six miles. They parked the truck under the trees and lit a cigarette. The next thing was strange. Suddenly, B.T. saw the driver lying on the ground in front of the passenger seat, looking out the window. B.T. then opened the window on his side and saw at the level of the trees, a round, black, solid object. There was a blackout and the next thing B.T. remembers is the driver shaking him saying it was 5:40. These two men also reported a two day period of missing time during their military service at an RAF base near Ashford in 1948. (BUFORA, "Late Sightings" Internet 1998)

#1953,
USA (unspecified location)
(cf: 1939, USA, unspecified location) According to the story, it was a Venusian who solicited her in 1953, introducing herself with the surprising name of Diane. But even more astonishingly, this pagan and Venusian virgin did not appear in the entrance of a flying saucer, but in a church! And that, in front of 26 witnesses, it is said!  [followed by 1957, USA, Fontana] (Jean SIDER: "Ovni, the unmasked invaders", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 78)

#1954, unspecified date
USA, unspecified location
LAUNCHING OF HIGH-ALTITUDE BALLOONS FOR STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF COSMIC RADIATION ON TWO MONKEYS. (GESAG, Launches: "Caldin 1960, 103")

#1954, (around...)
USA, Wright Patterson
THE RHESUS MONKEY "MIKE" ANESTHETIZED, IS LAUNCHED IN AN AEROBEE 3 WHICH REACHES 153 KM. THE DEVICE IS RECOVERED. (Inforespace n° 49, 1980, p. 14, 15)

#1954, beginning of the year
BELGIUM, Leopoldsburg (Limbourg)
During the first quarter, Mr. V.D. discovered near a football field in the locality, an object 70 cm long and 35 cm wide having the shape of a semi-circular wing, whose composition seemed to be based on a grayish, semi-transparent graphite.
(Comment from GESAG: a precise description of this strange object and the sketches drawn seem to indicate that it would be a debris from a German V1 of the last war) (GESAG cat. n° 1276)

#1954, January 4
FRANCE, Marseille-Marignane
At around 9pm: "A rounded and luminous craft" landed on a runway of the Marseille-Marignane aerodrome (and this was not the first time!)
M. Chesneau, a firefighter on duty at the Boussiron hangar, saw the craft.
While he was alerting the control tower by phone, the craft took off and disappeared. But the alerted authorities searched and discovered a hundred metal debris among which several small rods about fifteen centimeters long, curved at one end and ending at the other end with a ball, a bit bigger than a marble. (Henry DURRANT: "Le livre noir des S.V." - Laffont 1970 - p.117-118)

#February 7, 1954
USA
FIRST FLIGHT OF THE LOCKHEED MODEL 83 STARFIGHTER SINGLE-SEATER. IN QF VERSION
IT IS CONVERTED INTO A REMOTE-CONTROLLED DRONE TARGET AIRCRAFT. IN THIS CASE ITS SPAN IS 6.68 METERS FOR A LENGTH OF 16.69 METERS. CHARACTERISTIC SHAPE WITH THE FRONT PART IN A SHELL, THE WING AND THE TAIL AT THE LAST THIRD OF THE AIRCRAFT. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft - Bill Gunston - Elsevier-Séquoia 1979)

#February 15, 1954
GREAT BRITAIN, Coniston (Lancashire)
Astonishing photo taken by the young Stephen Darbishire, on the hill where he usually went to photograph birds. He was accompanied by his 8-year-old cousin Adrian Meyer, who saw the UFO first. Stephen, stunned, took two shots without worrying about the focus of the camera. (Jimmy GUIEU: "Black-out sur les S.V." Fleuve Noir 1956 - pp. 19-24) "The object shone like silver in the sun's rays. I took a photo. I had barely finished when the flying saucer rose at a dizzying speed and disappeared into the clouds. The sun's rays had strongly illuminated it and I had been able to notice that it was made of a transparent plastic material but through which I could not distinguish anything. It had three landing wheels underneath, a cabin with portholes and a dome at the top. The saucer made no noise except for a breath at the time of the ascent.” (Moustique n° 1507 of 12.12.54, p. 16, article by Bert Brem)

#February 18, 1954
SCOTLAND, Lossiemouth
Cedric Allingham, a writer, amateur astronomer, and ornithologist, declared to have seen a saucer land. A man of about 1.8 meters emerged from the craft and approached Allingham. This being was described as similar to a man in all respects, except for having a very high forehead. He wore a one-piece garment, including shoes, but no helmet. He also had tiny tubes coming out of his nostrils. The witness and the man conversed through signs. Photos were taken and published of the saucer and the Martian. (Charles BOWEN: "In Search of Humanoids" - J'ai Lu 1974 - p. 15) He was able to take several photos. Three hours later the craft returned, quickly lost altitude, and landed on the ground 50 meters from the witness, emitting a dull noise. Allingham managed to photograph the descent. The figure that emerged from the door was slim, wearing a very tight suit, and could just as easily have been an Englishman. He was at least 1.8 meters tall, his complexion was tanned, and his hair was quite short. He had the appearance of a terrestrial. Two tiny tubes came out of his nostrils, they were face to face and smiling amicably. The stranger, through gestures and signs, made it understood that he came from Mars and not from Venus. He had to fly away, accepted with gratitude the pen that Allingham offered him and embarked... (A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: "The Secret File of UFOs", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p. 159)

#1954, March 5
FRANCE, Rouen
UFO photos, from a patrol plane above the city of Rouen (photo Nicap) (Philippe SCHNEYDER: "UFO, First Balance" - ed. du Rocher 1983, photo insert after p. 154) (A. SCHNEIDER-H. MALTHANER: "The Secret File of UFOs", ed. De Vecchi, 1978, p. 115)

#1954, 24 March
GREAT BRITAIN, Dyfed and Gwynedd (Wales)
At 7:15 PM Mrs. Harding was called outside by her daughter, showing
something in the night sky. To the north of their position, above the
sea, an orange fireball with a black trail was zigzagging down. Its
apparent size was that of the sun, as was its brightness. The object
silently exploded, it was rather an explosion of light, but kept its
shape of an orange ball and plunged into the sea. The strangest thing
was that they saw this thing still illuminated under the water and this
for an hour after immersion. The trail changed color, it became gray
before dispersing. There was no audible sound, neither when the object
was in the air, nor when it plunged, nor when it was under the water.
Another witness saw something similar from Gwynedd. This witness
specifies that after plunging into the sea, the object rose back into
the sky and then had a gray trail. It is however not confirmed that the
two testimonies concern the same object. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern
Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 165)

#1954, March
BRAZIL, Santa Maria
Rubem Hellwig had encountered twice a small device that did not come from this world and had spoken with its occupants. The machine shaped like a melon or rugby ball was about the size of a Volkswagen and was not far from the road where Hellwig was driving at 5 pm. He stopped and headed towards the UFO.
The crew consisted of two tall men about 1.60 m tall, with a brownish face and no helmets. One of them was inside the device and the other was collecting specimens of grass. They spoke to Hellwig in a strange language, but he still understood what they were asking to know, the place where they could get some ammonia. He indicated the nearest town. With blue and yellow flames of great brightness, the device silently disappeared. The next day, early, he met what seemed to be the same machine but this time with a different crew, a tall man of good appearance and two women. They had light brown skin, long and silky black hair and large dark slanted eyes. All three were dressed the same way: a brown suit resembling suede with zipper closures. They said they were scientists, and were also surprised that unlike other people seen, Hellwig did not flee in terror. Hellwig specified that they could easily pass for natives of the Earth. (Charles BOWEN: "In Search of Humanoids" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 111)

#April 8, 1954
USA, Chicago (Illinois)
4:30 p.m. Witness: Lelah Stoker. A white dome-shaped disk, with a humanoid suspended underneath, glided over the water, landed, and an occupant in a tight-fitting green suit walked around. Then it departed, very, very quickly. Observation lasted 30 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner) A lady, whose apartment overlooked Lake Michigan, saw a shining object going back and forth close to the water. She called the Coast Guard, but when the cutter approached the object hid in the shoreline bushes. A small being of human appearance emerged, wearing a tight-fitting green suit and helmet. When the cutter left, the being re-entered the craft which returned to the lake. It eventually disappeared. (Inforespace n° 48 of 1979, p. 30)

#1954, April 23
USA, Pittsfield, Maine.
9:30 a.m. Witnesses: The Robinson couple. An object of the appearance of a dollar coin, with a dome and a flashing light, made a buzzing sound like a swarm of bees. It hovered, tilted, flew horizontally, then rose vertically without tilting. It lifted stones from the ground during its movements. Observation lasted 4 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1954, April 24
USA, Hartland, Maine.
6:10 p.m. Witness: D. Robinson. (note from vog: coincidence? The observers from the day before have the same surname and see almost the same thing...) A large oblong silver object, with a dome and flashing light, flew horizontally and then rose vertically. Observation of 15 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner)

#1954, April 24
FRANCE, Mortagne par Bruyères
On that day, around 3 pm, woodcutter Roger Mougeolle, 37 years old, was cutting wood in Bois-de-Champ with another man when he heard a loud noise. He saw three UFOs passing above him. Their slow speed and size gave the impression of an enormous mass. Two of the objects flew over them. The witnesses (who are the other witnesses?) saw one of the three objects descend, with a noise similar to that of a train running over a metal bridge. The UFO landed 50 m away, not touching the ground (remaining 40 cm away). It was huge: 300 m long, 60 m high. Mougeolle approached it and walked around it. He placed his hand on a cold and hard hull, then tapped it with his fist and then with the back of his axe, then with the blade. At that moment he slowly backed away to a rock on which he leaned: he felt paralyzed, stuck to the rock and watched the departure of the craft which rose slowly. (M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, le premier dossier complet..." ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 69; Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London, 1989, p. 60, 6 ) (Question from vog: did any investigator go to the Bois de Champ to see if there was a clearing at least 300 m long?)

#1954, Spring
FRANCE, Gorbio place-name "Le Beauriqueau". (Alpes Maritimes)
Around 02:40 (or 22:00?) the witness was walking home on a small path. He heard a sound like a hammer striking an anvil. 20 to 25 meters further he heard voices. After an avalanche on the path, he took a path crossing a private property. He was on a terrace, bordered by a wall of dry stones on which olives and oranges were grown. He went down a few steps to continue his path on a lower terrace. There he came across an incredible sight. About ten meters in front of him was a luminous and shining object on the ground. It was disc-shaped, more curved on the top, with a small dome on its upper part. The left side was shining like gold. The diameter was about 5 meters and the thickness 1.50 meters. On the left was a standing being, 1.60m tall and very thin with harmonious proportions: it gave the witness the impression of a single piece, very tight, enclosing the head. It shone with a white light "like a crushed firefly". The being had its back to the witness. When it arrived, it turned its head: to the witness's surprise there was a kind of veil that started from the forehead, cut off sharply at the height of the chin. There was a bulge at the height of the nose. The being uttered some words to a second character that the witness had not yet discovered. The words were not understood by the witness. The second being was presumably under the craft, it seemed to be crouching. At the call of the first one it took a step or two back while staying bent, before turning abruptly while standing up. It was smaller than the first one and with less harmonious proportions. It was dressed in the same way and wore the same kind of veil. It had something on its stomach resembling a flashlight. It brought its hand to it and immediately from this object held in both hands, a beam of white light came out.<br/><br/>The witness immediately felt paralyzed. He could no longer move but continued to see and hear. He had difficulty breathing. The two beings spoke again between them, and the n° 2 approached the witness at 60 cm: it came up to his neck, giving him a height of about 1.45 m. He then lifted his veil with his left hand and raising his head towards the witness, as if to show him well: he grimaced horribly, his lips apart revealing all his teeth. High and wide forehead, protruding cheekbones, pointed chin. Thin nose like an eagle's beak, regular and white teeth, beard sprinkled on the right cheekbone, swarthy skin. Widely spaced eyes, slightly oblique, large and globular. At first the witness thought the orbits were empty: then he saw a white globe, without iris or pupil. From the left eye a large tear of a thick and brown liquid descended to the corner of the lips: it was horrible to look at. He lost consciousness. When the witness regained his senses, the craft had taken off, being at 60 or 70 m and turning on itself. (L.D.L.N. "Mysterious Flying Saucers" - ALBATROS-ETAPES 1973 - p. 133 to 137- M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: Ovni, the first dossier... Lefeuvre 1979, p. 69, 70) (..) The being dropped his veil which fell on his face and, with his arms, twice, he made eloquent gestures, as if to encourage the witness to follow him (...) The witness saw them disappear into the craft without being able to specify where, he did not notice any opening although he heard a dull sound of metal closure. Then he lost consciousness... (Erich ZURCHER: "The Appearances of Humanoids" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 155, 156)

#1954, May 7
USA, White Sands
LAUNCH OF VIKING X, STATIC ENGINE TEST EXPLODES, SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT ALTITUDE 218 KM. (GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, M.W. Rosen, N.Y. 1958)

#1954, May 20
GREAT BRITAIN, Bruton - Ringwood
Nigel Frapple, 18 years old, was riding his bicycle around 2:00 in the morning, when a terrifying light illuminated the nearby fields. Stunned, the witness got off his bike and saw a huge saucer-shaped craft about 15 m in diameter slowly approaching, flying less than 30 m behind him. The craft was topped with a dome about 3.50 m high, with a bright orange light at its summit. The base was dark, contrasting with the orange color of the cylindro-conical body and the intense glow spinning at the top of its cockpit. The spacecraft thus evolved for 5 minutes, emitting a low hum, then rose at great speed to quickly disappear. (Jimmy GUIEU: "Black-out sur les S.V." - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 35)

#May 24, 1954
USA, White Sands
LAUNCH OF VIKING XI, ALTITUDE 254 KM, RECORD FOR SINGLE LIQUID FUEL ROCKET WITHOUT BOOSTER. (GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, M.W. Rosen, N.Y. 1958)

#May 24, 1954
NEW ZEALAND, Bell Block
Mr. M. Ferrier, D.L. Falwasser and Hodder, all from New Plymouth, took off at 6:50 from Bell Block in a Cessna. They were headed for Tahora. During the flight, to the east, in the direction of Taumarunui, three unusual objects appeared. The Cessna was then halfway between Uruti and Tahora, it was 7 o'clock in the morning. Continuing their journey, they could not believe their eyes: in the sky about 7000 feet above them, giant oval-shaped discs were hovering. They were of a reddish-orange color and a reddish flame was coming out of them. Continuing their flight at 135mph, and after three more minutes, the men then saw other strange craft in front of them, in a linear formation. Then suddenly, at an enormous speed, the objects shot up into the sky out of sight. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 224)

#1954, May (?)
PORTUGAL, Fregim-Oporto
The witness, aged eight, was tending to a sheep when he heard several whistles. He then saw two objects, approximately 2 m in diameter and 1.5 m high. One was spinning in circles and the other was rising and heading north. He noted the presence of two humanoids in the other object. One of them, with long arms, seemed to be touching something while the other seemed to be looking at the witness. They were dressed in blue, a kind of cuirass, they had large heads and seemed to be seated. The witness felt paralyzed with fear. (collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing by Victor Lourenco)

#June 1, 1954
USA, near Boston
American pilot Charles Kratovil of Transworld Airlines, aboard the four-engine line Paris-New York, saw in flight an object of white color, in the shape of a disk. The object first evolved parallel to the plane, to disappear in the clouds. A few minutes later it reappeared. It was a diaphanous spheroid of the apparent size of a basketball. Warned by radio, the eight employees of the Boston airport control tower replied that they also saw it and alerted the military authorities. A squadron took off immediately. The pilot, co-pilot and flight engineer saw the object for 10 minutes. Kratovil then received two radio messages from the military: "As the fighters approached, the object gained altitude. It is about 3000 m above them (who were flying at 15,000 m) and the object continues to climb". The second message said "that a weather balloon had been released from Grenier at 04:00 local time. At 10:19 it was above Boston and had reached an altitude of 24,000 m. It corresponded approximately to the given dimension and its diameter was about 33 meters". (Jimmy GUIEU: "Black-out on the S.V." - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 36, 37)

#1954, June 11
USA, Atlanta (Georgia)
Dr. Percy Wilkins made an observation from an airplane. During this trip from Charleston to Atlanta, around 10:45 in the morning, his gaze fell upon two bright oval-shaped objects, about 3 km away, remaining above a cumulus bank. He described them as having the appearance of polished metal reflecting the sunlight. Suddenly a third UFO appeared. As the two he had noticed first continued to sway gently above the clouds, the third began to move at an accelerated speed, described a curve and disappeared behind another cloud. These things had an oval shape, a shiny copper color and a thin edge. (Frank Edwards: "The S.V. Serious Affair." - Trans. Laffont 1967 - p. 43, 44) (Henry Durrant: "The UFO File" - Laffont 1973 - p. 33)

#1954, June 24
FRANCE, Brétigny
At around 3:30 pm, the pilot of an "Ouragan" was preparing to land, initiating his turn when he saw two objects moving parallel to his own trajectory. He made a turn to intercept them and found himself 3 km behind them, instead of at their level! "The two objects appeared ovoid to me, seen from the end and connected by a beam. Their distance apart was 40 meters, their altitude 9000 meters." They were moving at supersonic speed and were "wobbling". (GARREAU and LAVIER: "Face aux extra-terrestres" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 238, 239)

#1954, June 25
USA, Indian Lake, Ohio.
5:05 p.m. Witnesses: experienced private pilot John Mark, aboard his Navion lightplane; and the radar at Dayton, Ohio airport, observed a very large target at the same location. An object of aluminum or silver appearance, with an inverted cone on top, and a diameter of 60 feet. The phenomenon flew horizontally, hovered, and rose at a dizzying speed. Duration of 3 to 5 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1954, June 26
USSR,
Suborbital flight with dogs Lisa and Rizika on board (GESAG, Launches: Nieuwenhuis 1988, 52)

#1954, June 29
LABRADOR, Goose Bay,
The crew of a British plane was followed for 80 miles by seven strange objects. Captain James Howard, pilot of the New York-London airliner, said that the mysterious escort disappeared when an American interceptor came to the scene. The BOAC plane was at 19,000 feet about 150 miles southwest of Goose Bay when the objects appeared. "They were suddenly there," said Captain Howard. "They seemed black, and I swear they were solid. They were about 5 miles away. They accompanied us for 18 minutes. There was a large central object that seemed to be able to change shape as if it were made of jelly. Sometimes it had the shape of a double wing, sometimes like a sphere with a tail. The other six objects were in front and behind it. The ten members of the crew confirmed the observation as well as those who were not sleeping among the 51 passengers. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 226) On June 30, 1954, Captain James HOWARD, his crew and the 51 passengers of the BOAC Stratocruiser "Centaurus" saw at 01:05, off the coast of Labrador, a large flying saucer accompanied by 6 small objects. At 01:07 the shape of the large object changed, taking the shape of a delta wing with slightly curved sides, two small objects in front and four small objects behind. At this moment the things changed shape again, from the delta shape the large object became an ovoid narrow, then a kind of wide crescent with clearly rounded tips. It was to starboard about 5 miles away. Around 01:20 the military fighter sent from Goose-Bay base sent a message saying that he was approaching the civil aircraft. Gradually the objects began to literally vanish. At 1:23 the last object disappeared. (Jimmy GUIEU: "Black-out sur les S.V." - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 46 to 49) (Charles GARREAU: "Alerte dans le ciel: le dossier des enlèvements" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p.39). ("Dossiers OVNI", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Hors série, p. 19, locates this the day before, June 29).

#June 1954
ITALY, Torre de Picenardi
Around 2:30 PM, Franco Premi, a farmer, was at the edge of the field near the road, on his tractor. Suddenly his dog, who was accompanying him, became agitated, while a very high-pitched whistle was heard. A strange saucer was landing in a grassy area about 20 meters away, with a kind of tripod support coming out of its belly. Once the craft was on the ground, the whistle stopped, the dog calmed down and the witness, getting off the tractor, went to hide behind some bushes. The gray, but transparent craft in its lower part had the shape of a mouse, without the tail, the lower part being slightly curved, while the upper part was very rounded. The length was estimated at 10 meters, the width at 7 m and the height at 3 meters, without the feet, which were one meter high. After 2 or 3 minutes, two beings dressed in a blue-azure suit came out from underneath. They were well two meters tall, they wore a helmet surrounding their head and descending low on the neck. At the front, a dark visor prevented them from seeing their features. These beings walked with difficulty, opened the craft in three places under the hull and took out a metal piece which they placed on the ground. After a few minutes, they put the piece back in place. One of the beings went to the wheat field, observing the plants (still small), but he did not pick any. He returned to his companion, still under the craft. Together they then looked at the countryside grasses. They took some and put the samples in a small container that seemed to be made of glass. After other looks at the countryside, they returned on board. A few moments later the saucer rose vertically and the high-pitched whistle was heard and gradually the landing gear was retracted into the craft. Once the craft was gone, the witness went to see the landing site and he felt a strong ozone smell. There were some traces of the landing gear, but no plants on the site seemed to be affected by the presence of the craft. (CISU, D/archives - 5401 with the mention: RR3, not investigated, possible hoax. Sources: GdM 4, 42, 37-38; UFO in Italia II, 45-48, report G.O.R.U.)

#June 1954
KENYA, Nairobi, Kirimukuyu
11-year-old Laili Thindu reportedly told authorities in Nairobi that he had seen strange lights coming from the direction of Mount Kenya and flying near his village of Kirimukuyu. The lights hovered above a neighboring village where the sound of drums celebrating a wedding could be heard. The objects projected beams of light and the drums became silent. The next morning it was said to the child that the entire population of this village and the livestock had been "burned" to death by the light beam. (unverified case) (Jacques VALLEE: "Confrontations" - Laffont 1991, p. 164, 165)

#1954, Summer
Italy, Rome
General Assembly of World Geophysicists. Geophysics is a very wide science. It deals with both earthquakes and terrestrial magnetism, as well as (note from vog: hmm! hmm!...) the "Mohole Project". The Congress made an important decision and resolved to dedicate two consecutive years of scientific resources to geophysics, that is 1957 and 1958. (...) Extra-terrestrial things became fashionable and there was a worldwide epidemic of "flying saucers", hundreds of brave people declared to have seen flying saucers piloted by Martians or Venusians.... ("Astronautics" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 13, 14)
#1954, July 2
CANADA, Garson (Ontario)
A man encountered large six-armed beings who hypnotized him and left him in a state of shock. (Inforespace n° 48 of 1979, p. 30)

#July 13, 1954
NEW ZEALAND, Dargaville
Six women returning home after singing in the choir suddenly saw in the night sky what looked like a missile coming from Whangarei and heading towards the west coast. They were stunned as the craft glided slowly at low altitude, with a yellow glow at the front and an emerald green coloration at the back, so intense that it lit up the whole area. An inhabitant of Hokianga Road, already in bed, was woken up. He came out of the house to see what was happening. The man was scared as the object flew so low that he thought it was going to hit the nearby hill. Nothing was found during the immediate search. ("Ufo's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 226)

#1954, July 30
USA, Los Angeles, California.
10:15 a.m. Witnesses: Hughes Aircraft test pilots Englert and Peterson, aboard a B-25 bomber. An object of metal, pencil-shaped, flying slowly and hovering for an unspecified length of time. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner)

#1954, July 30
USA, unspecified
Buck Nelson, a resident of a rural area, claimed to have encountered humanoids from a flying saucer and received them at his home. During the observation of the disk's landing he said: "The most extraordinary and frightening experience occurred when I tried to signal the disk with my flashlight. A beam of very intense light, much hotter and brighter than the sun, came out and hit me violently, making me fall. As I suffered from lumbago and nephritis, I was afraid to move, to get up and take another hit. I only watched the disks until they disappeared. But when I tried to get up, I was surprised to find that my pains were gone: they have not bothered me since". (Henry DURRANT: "First Investigations on ET Humanoids" - Laffont 1977 - p. 65)

#1954, July 30
ATLANTIC OCEAN, 130 km east of New York
At 8:15 in the morning, the captain and crew of the Dutch steamship "De Groote Beer" as well as the 463 passengers saw a gray, disk-shaped object fly through the sky and disappear into the clouds. Captain Boshoff, who had 40 years of navigation experience, had never seen anything like it. ("Ufo's: a Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 226) The captain of a Dutch ship, en route to New York, reported that members of his crew had observed a flat object emerging from the sea. The captain had looked at it through binoculars: first the object was gray, then the bottom part became luminous and there were luminous spots around its perimeter. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 173)

#1954, Summer (probable date)
FRANCE, Bette (Creuse)
An employee of the Gibord factory in Boussac was pedaling along the road to Bette at around 9 pm. He saw a luminous circle land in a field and two helmeted men, carrying antennas, come out of the craft. Frightened, he accelerated his pace, feeling as if he was pedaling in the void. He felt as if he was being drawn towards the craft. Finally, after a long detour, he arrived home and remained stunned for several days. Another peasant is said to have encountered strange unknowns in the countryside around the same time, again in the vicinity of Bette. (J.G. DOHMEN: "A identifier et le cas Adamski" - ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 100)

#August 7, 1954
SWITZERLAND, Zurich
At 4:15 PM in somewhat cloudy weather, a UFO under the cloud ceiling (at 1300 m) in the form of a dark disc flew against the wind. The color of the crown continuously changed from a silvery hue to pink and then blue. When it passed to red, the outlines of the UFO were blurred. It swayed slightly like a spinning top. Around 10:30 PM two other people made a similar observation. (Jimmy GUIEU: "Black-out sur les S.V." - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 78)

#1954, August 7
CANADA, Hemmingford (Quebec)
Two brothers, aged 11 and 13, reported having witnessed a landing of a craft and having seen the pilot emerge. The observation began with the perception of a buzzing sound. They then saw a luminous, multicolored spherical object descend next to the barn and hover there. A kind of rod extended downwards from it and acted like a ladder, at the top of which an opening appeared and a very tall man (approx. 2.4 m) emerged. He was wearing a black "leather" suit that left his head uncovered. He was carrying a kind of machine gun. This man had a completely human appearance, of white race, but with large round eyes. He had short, black hair cut in a strange way. There were other witnesses to the scene, in addition to the children, and it lasted about an hour. (Skylook n° 92 - July 1975)

#August 11, 1954
JAPAN, Yoron Jima, near Okinawa.
8:55 p.m. Witness: P.L. Percharde, electrical engineer and vice-administrator of Moeller Shipwrecker Co., in Okinawa. A line of blue lights, below a blue circle with a black center. It flew over the boat before going up, illuminating and agitating the clouds. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner). A rescued boat anchored just outside of Yoron-Jima. A round blue light descended from the sky to 200 or 300 feet above sea level, passing over the boat. Estimated to be 100 feet in diameter, it rose and flew through the clouds, the light illuminating and "agitating" the cloud layers. ("UFO's: a Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press inc. 1999, p. 227)

#1954, mid-August
USA, Oklahoma
An Indian woman met a dark-skinned, long-haired space man who was laughing uproariously and predicted terrible disasters in the near future. (Inforespace n° 48 of 1979, p. 30)

#1954, August 16
MADAGASCAR, Tananarive
Edmond Carnpagnac (C), a former artillery officer and former head of Air France's technical services in Madagascar, now retired, came to testify before the committee. The following phenomenon occurred on August 16, 1954 in Tananarive and was observed by several hundred witnesses. At 5 pm, while the Air France agency staff was waiting for the mail to arrive, someone spotted in the sky a 'large green ball moving at great speed. The first thought of the witnesses was that it was a meteorite. The phenomenon disappeared behind a hill, they thought that the green ball was going to hit the ground and they would perceive the shock. Yet it reappeared a minute later. Passing right through the observers, it revealed itself to be a kind of metal rugby ball preceded by a clearly detached green lens with sparks escaping from the back. According to the witnesses' estimate, the "ball had the length of a DC4 plane, that is about forty meters. The green lens detached at the front at a little less than 40 m, with sparks coming out at the back. The craft flew over Tananarive at an estimated height of 50 to 100 m, an estimation made possible by comparison with the height of a nearby hill. As the craft moved, the lights of the shops went out and the animals showed real concern. After flying over Tananarive, the craft left towards the west. Passing over the city's zebu park, the craft caused a violent reaction of fear among them. Surprisingly, since normally these animals showed no emotion at the passage of Air France planes. Two or three minutes later, an identical craft was observed 150 km away above a farm school. Again, the herds were taken by panic. If the observed craft was the same as the one in Tananarive, its speed must have been around 3,000 km/h. According to C, General Fleurquin, commander-in-chief in Madagascar, convened a 'scientific commission to conduct an investigation into these phenomena. No trace of this investigation could be found in the archives of the Air Force, however number 6 of the Gepa (Group for the Study of Aerospace Phenomena) bulletin of the second semester of 1964 described this observation. (And did the GEPA, a civilian and private ufology group, at least make one or another verification before publishing???) (COMETA Report, 1999)

#1954, August 20
NORWAY, Oeydalen (Mosjeeon)
Edith Jacobsen and her sister Asta went with their uncle to pick blueberries in the early afternoon. Uncle Halvdan Jacobsen went off taking a different path, the two young women stayed together. They began picking and then saw at some distance a man coming towards them smiling and waving his hand. He was dressed in a kind of long khaki tunic, tight at the neck, his waist was held in by a wide belt. He had long brown hair, light eyes slightly slanted, and a very tanned complexion. Surprised, they returned his greeting, as he seemed friendly. He spoke to them in a soft voice and although they knew English and German in addition to Norwegian and had some knowledge of French and Russian, they could not understand a word he said. He took out a kind of pencil and a sheet of paper and drew them some orbits of the solar system, then invited the women to follow him. They did, intrigued. In a clearing they discovered a lenticular craft resembling two overturned saucepan lids with a kind of dome at their axis. The craft, gray-blue, measured 4 to 5 m in diameter and 1.50 m at its axis. Wanting to get closer, the stranger dissuaded them by gestures. He opened a hatch at the base of the dome, entered the craft and closed the door. A faint buzzing sounded and the disc took off slowly spinning on itself. At 40 m in height it hovered for a few seconds, accelerated its rotation and disappeared at an incredible speed. [note de vog: ce cas est cité dans les "lettres de Ummo", comme étant un canular… étant des E.T. eux-mêmes, ils devaient le savoir n'est-il pas? ".] (Jimmy GUIEU: "Black-out sur les S.V." - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 79 à 81)

# 1954, August 23
FRANCE: Vernon (Eure)
At around 1:00 AM: A column of light was seen at night by Bernard Miserey. He informed the police station the next morning; they replied that two officers on their rounds around one o'clock had seen the same phenomenon. A military engineer on the RN 181 also saw it. (Henry DURRANT "Le livre noir des S.V. - LAFFONT 1970 - p. 29, cites Aimé Michel in "Lueurs sur les S.V.") "I discovered a gigantic vertical cigar, motionless and silent, apparently stationed above the north bank of the river at about 300 meters altitude. I was contemplating this amazing spectacle for a moment when suddenly, from the bottom of the cigar, an object in the shape of a horizontal disc emerged, which first fell in free fall, then slowed down and suddenly tilted and flew horizontally across the river in my direction and became very bright. For a very short time I could see the disc face on. It was surrounded by a halo of bright light. A few minutes after it had disappeared behind me to the south-west at a prodigious speed, a second object similar to the first detached itself from the lower end of the cigar and maneuvered in the same way. A third followed, then a fourth. There was then a slightly longer interval and finally a fifth disc detached itself from the still motionless cigar. This one fell much lower than the previous ones, down to the level of the new bridge where it stopped oscillating slightly. I could then clearly see its circular shape and its red luminosity, more intense in the center, attenuated on the edges and the ardent halo that surrounded it. After a few seconds of immobility it tilted like the first four and started off in an arrow, but towards the north where it was lost in the distance, gaining altitude. Meanwhile the luminosity of the cigar had disappeared and the gigantic object which may have been 100 meters long had melted into the darkness. The spectacle had lasted about three quarters of an hour. (Henry DURRANT: "Le dossier des OVNI" - Laffont 1973 - p. 37-38).

#1954, August 23
FRANCE, Lugrin (Thonon)
A man approached an object that looked like an aluminum trailer; nearby two small beings in silver clothes grunted like pigs. The craft flew away taking on a fiery red color. (Charles BOWEN: "In Search of Humanoids" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 35)

#1954, August 23
USA, unspecified
(cf. September 1, 53) Adamski is brought aboard the mothership one last time. The extraterrestrials declare that their mission on Earth is complete. (but this is not the end, following April 25, 55) (Hans Richter: "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1954, August 30
CANADA, North Bay (Ontario)
At the Royal Canadian Air Force base at 5:40 Henry Durdle, on duty in the mess, saw a bright object coming from the northeast that rushed towards him at a terrifying speed. Durdle, panicked, thought for a moment that it was a distressed plane, but there was no sound. Slowing down its course, the object took the shape of a disk topped with a turret, with a rotating, blinding light at the top. The disk, inclined towards the ground, appeared concave and embedded by one of its edges in a kind of parallelepiped with a slightly curved surface. At the periphery hung some kind of intertwined luminous rings. The device was at the height of a streetlight pole. Through a rectangular opening in one of the lateral faces, Durdle saw control organs: levers and buttons. Durdle alerted his colleagues who were then able to see the strange device move. Soon it was only perceived as a ball of light. (Jimmy GUIEU: "Black-out sur les S.V." - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 88, 89)

#1954, August
FRANCE, St Sauveur-La-Sagne (Puy de Dôme)
Mrs. Carrière was on vacation with her husband and her six children.
One morning, as she was returning from doing her shopping in the village, she saw a kind of black balloon land, from which a very small man with a horrible face, all black, descended. Another had remained in the craft. The one who had come down stayed on the ground for only a few seconds and quickly got back on board. The craft took off immediately without making any noise, leaving behind a very white trail. In a nearby meadow, Mrs. Carrière noticed that two cows had fallen to the ground and were writhing as if they had been tortured. The farmer and his wife, as well as Mrs. Carrière, were paralyzed, as if struck by lightning. (GARREAU and LAVIER: "Face aux extra-terrestres" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 206)

#1954, Summer (or 1956)
FRANCE, Château de Buron
At around 3pm, Mr. Div and 6 other children were playing a game and climbing a path between the Château de Buron and the Allier river. At 25 or 30 meters away, two small figures, about 90 cm to 1m tall, dressed in shiny silver diving suits, their heads wrapped in a huge helmet of about 50 cm in diameter made of the same material, with a flat circular visor, were busy at a collapsed wall made of dry stones (basalt). They were picking up pieces of 1 to 2 kg, taking them with both hands, taking a few steps and putting them in a box while bending over, without bending their legs. Then they would go back to the wall. They moved slowly. After two minutes of observation, one of the young boys, scared, ran away. The others followed immediately. (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet..." ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 66, 647)

#1954, late summer
BELGIUM, between Antwerp and Brussels
Mr. and Mrs. Krings were driving towards Brussels from Antwerp between 6 and 7 pm. They stopped, as did other motorists, to look: "An object shaped like a pear, apparently cut in two in the direction of the width, and as if placed on a flat base similar to a plate, flew to our right in the direction of the metropolis. Its progress was diagonal. It was dragging luminous cables where the orange color predominated over the gray." (J.G. DOHMEN: "To Identify and the Adamski Case" - ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 155)

#August-September 1954
Belgium, Olloy sur Viroin (Hainaut)
At around 6:30 PM, Mr. and Mrs. J.D. and Mr. and Mrs. F. had left Couvin by car and were heading to Olloy. About 2 km from the village, they suddenly saw an oval object of about 8 to 9 m in diameter crossing the road only about 10 m in front of the car. The object was moving quickly, spinning on itself at about 30 m above the ground in the direction of the French border (approx. NNO towards SSE). The largest diameter was surrounded by a phosphorescent, dazzling green band. No sound was heard and the duration of the incident is estimated to have been a few seconds. (GESAG, cat. n° 1068, sources: SOBEPS, Willy Breidenbach's investigation Dec. 74 and J.L. Vertongen, comment on the Franco-Belgian coal basin study 77)

#September 2, 1954
USA, Coldwater (Kansas)
John J. Swain, 12 years old, the farmer's son, was returning to the farm around 8 pm on his father's tractor when he suddenly noticed a tiny man less than 6 meters away behind an embankment. The small silhouette had a very long nose and very long ears and when it moved it seemed to "fly". John saw the creature "fly" over a small hill towards an object shaped like a saucer hovering about 1.5 meters off the ground. "The thing opened" and the little man jumped inside, the "thing" lit up and moved away at a considerable speed. (...) Police called and tracks found.
(Charles BOWEN: "In Search of Humanoids" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 178, 179)

#1954, September 7
FRANCE, Acheux en Amiénois - Harponville - Contay
Emile Renard, a mason, and Yves Degillerboz, his worker, both on bicycles, saw at 7:15 in the morning, a saucer resting in a field, whose shape resembled a truncated haystack covered with an immense overturned plate. The apparatus was oscillating slightly. As the witnesses approached, smoke escaped from the lower part of the device, which took off and disappeared. The gendarmerie conducted an investigation. (Jimmy GUIEU: "Black-out sur les S.V." - Fleuve Noir 1956 - pp. 79 and 123 - he cites two dates (including 8.8.54) in different places for the same case) (Jacques Vallée: "Chronique des apparitions ET" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 257)

#1954, September 10
FRANCE, Mourieras-Millevache (Corrèze)
Antoine Mazaud, a farmer, returning from the fields at 8:50 PM, encountered
about 1500 meters from his home in a path between two hedges, a normal-sized individual
wearing a helmet walking towards him. Great surprise on both sides but Mazaud, worried, made a gesture of defense
with the pitchfork he was carrying on his shoulder. The individual quickly advanced
towards him, smiling, with his hands outstretched, to convince him of his good intentions. While uttering incomprehensible words
he grasped Mazaud's hands and shook them warmly. Then, before Mazaud had recovered from his surprise, he jumped over the embankment bordering the
path and jumped into a strange device in the shape of a large metallic cigar 3 to 4 meters long. The unlit
apparatus took off vertically emitting a curious buzzing of a hive, passed under the high-tension wires and disappeared towards the west. (Jimmy
GUIEU: "Black-out sur les S.V." - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 125) (Aimé
Michel: "M.O.C." - éd. Seghers, p. 56 à 60)

#1954, 10 September
FRANCE, Quarouble
The "Marius Dewilde" case was widely commented on in ufology literature. Summary. Dewilde had gone to bed as usual around 10:15 PM. (other authors say his wife and son were already in bed but he was still reading by the fire) A few minutes later the dog started to bark. Dewilde got up, put on his pants and went out with a flashlight. The dog came towards him crawling. On the nearby railway track Dewilde then saw a dark mass. Having heard footsteps and surprised in the beam of his flashlight, 6 m away from him, two small creatures resembling men, wearing a shiny helmet. They were between 1m and 1m20 tall. He had wanted to block their way in the garden and at that moment a blinding light beam came out of the object and stunned him. He saw a door open in the dark object and then the object started to rise straight up, then at full speed, roaring. (Frank EDWARDS: "Les S.V. affaire sérieuse" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 96, 97)
"It was between 10:15 PM and 10:30 PM, I was reading when the dog started to bark. My wife and the kid were already in bed. I went back to my reading, but as the dog wouldn't stop barking, I took my flashlight and went to see. Thereupon I noticed along the track a dark mass. (...) But the dog starts barking again. Instinctively I look in the direction where the beast is turning, pulling on its chain, and I see in the shadows something moving on the small path, on the other side of the house. I point my flashlight in that direction and I see two silhouettes rushing towards the railway track. I prepare to pursue them. But I changed my mind when I noticed their extraordinarily small size and their head enclosed in some kind of bell. Believe me, I felt like turning around. So I stayed two meters away from them, watching, when from the dark mass on the line a green ray fixed on me. I don't know if it was the effect of this ray or if I was paralyzed by fear, in any case I was like nailed to the ground. A few moments later the ray went out. The mass swayed, then it rose into the air, vertically, without noise and no faster than a helicopter, leaving behind it a black smoke. Once at a certain height it looked like a ball of fire and it disappeared at a dizzying speed. (...) The object reminded me more of a flat lid. It was closed on all sides. I didn't see the two little beings getting in, the green light was blinding me so much that I couldn't see anything anymore." (...) (note from vog: during the night Marius Dewilde drove 25 km to tell his story to the gendarmerie, which didn't deign to open, then he went to Onnaing to the police station. Commissioner M. Gouchet said that Marius Dewilde was trembling with fear...)
(Moustique n° 1503 of 14.11.1954, p. 15 to 18, article by Bart Brem.)

#1954, September 12
FRANCE, Quarouble
In the afternoon, a truck driver spotted a dome-shaped object approaching vertically and landing behind a clump of trees 50 meters from the road. Through a gallery surrounding the craft, human-like beings were visible. The witness stopped, ran towards the craft: at that moment it emitted a green ray that paralyzed him. The craft took off vertically and slowly moved away with a blast of air at departure. (M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, le premier dossier complet.." - Lefeuvre 1979, p. 78)

#1954, September 14
FRANCE, Saint Prouant (Vendée)
At around 5 pm, Georges Fortin was working in the fields when from the thick cloud layer emerged a luminous blue-violet cloud whose regular shapes resembled those of a cigar or a carrot. This shape had a rigid aspect and its movements were carried out in blocks: like a gigantic engine surrounded by vapors, at 400 or 500 m altitude. Everywhere in the countryside, the other peasants had dropped their tools to watch. Suddenly, the thing had been motionless for several minutes, a white smoke shot out from the lower end, first towards the ground, as if in free fall, then slowed down progressively, initiating an upward spiral around the phenomenon. After other maneuvers, a small shiny metal disc appeared, reflecting like a mirror the reflections of the large object. (...) total duration: more than half an hour. Other witnesses: Louis Grellier, Mrs. Vve Pizou, MM. Pérochau, Mercier and their wives, Daniel Bonifait (followed on 24-7-67: Simon la Vineuse) etc.. (Aimé Michel: "M.O.C." Ed. Seghers, p. 33 to 35)

#1954, September 15
FRANCE, Feurs (St Etienne)
In the night, a mysterious craft landed a few meters away from a group of people who were immobilized due to a breakdown on a departmental road. An entity fled in front of two witnesses who, despite their fear, attempted to make contact with it. (M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, le premier dossier complet.." - Lefeuvre 1979, p. 79)

#1954, September 17
FRANCE, Cenon
Near Cenon, a farmer encountered a being in a diving suit who made friendly gestures to him. This individual was very small and had an inhuman and incomprehensible voice. The witness was unable to move the entire time of the encounter. The being entered an object that was placed on the road and flew away "like lightning", projecting a greenish light. (Charles BOWEN: "In Search of Humanoids" -1967- Trans. I Read 1974 - p. 36) Yves David de Montgamé was riding his bicycle to Cenon. It was 10:30 pm. He arrived at the place called Pontereau when he suddenly felt a malaise. It was like tingling, prickling all over his body. He had to stop and thus the light of his bicycle no longer illuminated. To his great surprise he realized that his malaise was not increasing but that he was simply paralyzed. He then saw an object three meters wide and one meter thick. He felt horror overtake him: he could not move and he saw this strange object. Suddenly he saw a silhouette come out of the machine: it was a small being with human features. He approached, touched him on the shoulder and spoke to him in a voice that was not human and that he did not understand. The little man retreated to the machine where he entered. It became greenish and shot off into space at a lightning speed. Yves David returned to normal and trembling with fear he jumped on his bicycle to go home. (Jean FERGUSON: "All about Flying Saucers", ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p. 203, 204)

#1954, September 19
COTE D'IVOIRE, Danane
The whole population of the town witnessed the event. It was around 8:30 pm and in the courtyard of the residence Mr. Vernhet and his wife were chatting with the chief medical officer of the medical center, the head of the gendarmerie and the Rev. Father Vyard. Their attention was suddenly drawn to a bright point surrounded by a halo that was quickly growing. The light came from an ovoid craft topped with a dome and rays of light seemed to be coming out from each side. This craft moved in complete silence. After turning around for a few moments in the vicinity of the town, it lit up a powerful beacon, sometimes pointing up and sometimes down, and continued to move like this for half an hour. When it moved away, the witnesses clearly saw two oval-shaped luminous halos forming in the presumed location of the craft. (Charles GARREAU: "Alert in the Sky: The Abduction Files" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p.111)

#September 21, 1954
ACORES, PORTUGAL, Sta. Maria-Ponta Delgada
9:45 p.m. Witness: airport guard. An object 10'x5', light blue metallic color, shaped like a walnut, with a nose in glass or plastic, with a door, with openings or vents in the nose. Buzzing softly it hovered, before landing vertically at 50' feet. A blond man, about 1m 75, 1m 80, appeared, spoke in a foreign language, tapping the guard on the shoulder, returned to his craft, fastened his harness, pushed a button and took off with the nose of the object raised, began to hover for a few moments before climbing vertically. Observations of 2-3 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner) Time: 10:45 p.m.
(...) The UFO was oblong in shape, 10 feet long and 5 feet high, of a metallic light blue color. In the front there was a section in Plexiglas, blue too, containing the "pilot". At each end of the UFO there were two appendages with 4 arms supporting some kind of wings. An orange light shone in the front of the craft. The civil guard, Mr. Monteiro, was alerted to the presence of the object when he heard a sound like that of the wind passing through high tension or telephone cables. The object landed about 30 feet from the witness, nosing down in the maneuver; it flew over the witness at about 30 cm. Mr. Monteiro did not see any landing gear. A man with blond hair, 1m75 to 1m80 tall, came out of a door in the Plexiglas section and approached the witness. However, there was no attempt at conversation. The contact lasted from 2 to 3 minutes and ended when a car arrived. The pilot boarded and the craft rose almost vertically accelerating and quickly disappearing into the night sky. The weather was clear and visibility unlimited. (said the witness) (collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing of Victor Lourenço; "Diario Popular" 3.10.54; MUFON Journal; FSR; CEAFI) (Charles BOWEN: "In Search of Humanoids" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 37)

#September 22, 1954
USA, Marshfield (Missouri)
At around 11 o'clock, two employees of the Webster Gas Company were returning from Bracken to Marshfield. (...) At 180 meters altitude and 200 meters distance to the southwest was an object somewhat in the shape of a boomerang, with a short and a long wing, very narrow, silent, covered in some kind of plastic or very thin material. It was slowly spinning. When the wing passed in front of the sun, the sunlight seemed to shine through. It was dark brown in color, with two black stripes near the end of the wing. "We watched it for a few minutes (while stopped) and it rose to a height of 450 meters, still with the same spinning motion and at the same rate of rotation. It descended more slowly than it had risen, to 150 meters, stopped spinning and then plummeted, emitting a plume of smoke or vapor, stopped all maneuvers and fell into a small wood." The witnesses rushed there, but did not find any object: only two places where the ground was completely pulverized, but did this have anything to do with the object? (J. Allen HYNEK: "New Report on UFOs" - Belfond 1979 - pp. 175 to 177) Marshfield, Missouri. 9 a.m. Witnesses: private pilot J.N. Williams, and E.J. Ash. A thin object, initially translucent, then in the shape of an asymmetrical boomerang, descended behind the trees. Ground traces found. Observation of 15 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1954, September 23
FRANCE, Thenon (Dordogne)
Twelve hunters observed at 5 o'clock, a flying saucer at a dizzying speed close to the trees. IN REALITY: it was a hoax set up by the hunters. (M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, le premier dossier complet.." - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 84)

#1954, September 24
Portugal, Almaseda
Cesar Cardoso was driving on a two-lane rural road near the village of Almaseda, not far from the border with Spain, when he heard a strange buzzing sound. Suddenly the engine of his car was sputtering and he stopped on the side of the road. There he tried several times, turning the key, to restart the engine. He only got noises resembling nails being shaken in a metal box. So he got out to open the hood. The buzzing sound he heard grew louder and there, lower than him, near the crest of a hill, he saw a silver disc about 13 m in diameter.<br/><br/>
"Three entities in shiny aluminum uniforms came out, they were about 2 m tall. The entities walked on the hill, stooping from time to time to pick up some of the vegetation that grew there: flowers, leaves, twigs and they put all this in a shiny box. The extraterrestrials saw Cardoso and three other Portuguese along the road: they began to make signs to them, inviting them to come near the saucer. We refused and they did not insist. They got into their craft which rose vertically and left at an extreme speed in a shower of sparks. ("Flying Saucers Uncensored" by Harold T. Wilkins, The Citadel Press, New Jersey, 1955, page 55. ; "Diario de Lisboa" for September 28, 1954.) [IN REALITY: this was a hoax set up by Cardoso's nephew, Francisco Antonio Fereira, who admitted the hoax in an interview, later published in the newspaper "Diaro de Lisboa" on October 1, 1954] (Janet and Colin BORD report this case on September 20)

#1954, September 24
FRANCE, Becar
09:00. Two women, Mrs. Widow Geoffroy and Miss Gisèle Fin, gave independent accounts of a dark gray disc, 6 m in diameter and 1 m high, seen in a clearing. A man of normal size was standing near the craft. He was wearing dark clothes and some kind of cap. Miss Fin approached to within 30 m of the craft and said that the man was busy repairing it. Traces were found in the grass. (Jacques Vallée: "Chronique des apparitions ET" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 260)

#1954, September 25
FRANCE, Joinville le Pont
At 9:35 PM Louis Perret from Paris and a friend were walking along the banks of the Marne. A craft descended vertically and landed silently 20 meters away from them. Two beings descended, 1.10 meters tall, their faces covered in fur. "As I was paralyzed by a ray (no description) one of them rushed towards me and ripped off my pants. My friend shouted and the two beings got back into their craft which rose vertically and disappeared." (M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, le premier dossier complet.." - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 86)

#1954, September (before the 26th)
BELGIUM, Wattou (Flanders)
In the night the witness was returning home by bicycle. The sky was clear and the Moon was visible. On a meadow he saw a "saucer". Crawling and hiding in the bushes, he approached. He observed how small men wearing classic helmets had come out of the device with instruments. They set something up on the ground and the witness saw a flash of light come out of it. He then saw a screen on which a face appeared that seemed to be talking. But from the place he was in, he couldn't hear anything. The devices were then dismantled and reloaded by one of the little men while the other, with a kind of shovel, took a clump of grass which he carried towards the device. He started an animated conversation with his companion during which he pointed to the thicket in which the witness was. Frightened, the man closed his eyes, unable to move. When he opened them again, he saw the little man holding a branch of the bush in his hand, who headed towards the "saucer". Immediately after, the saucer rose. The witness then left the place but, presumably, at that moment he was seen and a powerful beam of light was directed at him. He fled as quickly as possible while the light and the saucer disappeared. (Source: "Ons Zondagblad" 26.9.54, signed Walter Cabu, journalist. In his letter of 9.3.72 Mr. Cabu said that it was a letter from the witness - no coordinates on this person were found. GESAG cat. n° 446)

#1954, September 26
FRANCE, Chabeuil
At around 2:30 PM, Mrs. Leboeuf (née Lucette Salin), who was looking for blackberries (or mushrooms?), suddenly found herself, due to the barking of her dog, Dolly, in front of a creature resembling a child in a plastic bag, which she had initially taken for a scarecrow. It had eyes bigger than human eyes. In place of hair, a blackish mass, and wearing a transparent diving suit, its head in a kind of bell. It had no arms. She was petrified and when this being tried to approach her by hopping, she screamed and ran away, hiding in the bushes and trembling with fear. This creature entered a flat and circular machine which took off towards the northeast with a faint whistle. Traces. Witnesses strongly impressed. (Jimmy GUIEU: Black-out sur les S.V." - FLEUVE NOIR 1956 - pp. 157-160) Mrs. Leboeuf, terrified, sees a small being in a diving suit approaching her while her dog and those of the neighborhood bark. Then a disk rises from the ground whistling, tilts and disappears at very high speed. Traces are discovered on the ground and vegetation. (Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, pp. 60-63)

#1954, September 27
FRANCE, Bessèges
At 02:40 the Roche couple saw "something round like a red tomato" 100 m from their home. This thing had 5 or 6 vertical rods on top of it. Mr. Roche said it was something like an overturned bouquet. After 20 minutes, this thing still in place, the couple went to bed. (Jimmy GUIEU: "Black-out sur les S.V." - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 148 to 149)

#1954, September 27
FRANCE, Prémanon (Haut Jura)
At 8:30 pm, it was pouring rain. Four children playing in the barn,
came out hearing the dog barking furiously. The eldest threw himself
almost on the "ghost" which had the shape of a piece of sugar split at
the bottom, making legs. The small stones and the rubber-tipped dart
thrown at it, bounced off the unknown with a tin sound. So it was not
a ghost and the child approached ready to play, ready to touch. But an
invisible and icy pressure pushed him to the ground. The little sister
who ran up, saw the tin ghost move away swaying. Frightened, the
children fled towards the house while the UFO, a red ball, oscillated
in the meadow. (Jacques POTTIER: "Les Soucoupes Volantes" - DE
VECCHI - 1974 - p. 31) IN REALITY: In the book by Gérard Barthel and
Jacques Brucker: La grande Peur Martienn - Nouv. Ed. Rationalistes,
Paris 1979 - it appears that this case, was unmasked, otherwise, said,
would probably be only a hoax of the children. Unless it is a
journalistic one. To be verified. (OVNI Présence n° 36 -janv. 1987).

#1954, September 28
BELGIUM, Tournai
At around 5:45 PM an object shaped like a bucket landed on the ground, jumping and emitting flashes and smoke. (Source: La Voix du Nord, and Fernand Lagarde, comm. of 72. GESAG cat. n° 674)

#1954, September 28
FRANCE, Bouzais
At the "Grand Tertre", Mr. Mercier had noticed this afternoon that someone had stolen grapes from his vineyard. He decided to stay late to catch the thieves. He was surprised at around 10:30 pm to see a luminous mass fall from the sky about 50 m from him, he found himself "paralyzed" while 3 characters came out of this light and were busy. He fainted and when he came to, everything had disappeared. He then fled, terrified. (Jacques Vallée: "Chronique des apparitions ET" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 261, 262)

#1954, September 28
FRANCE, St Nicolas de Redon
At around 11:10 PM at "la Butte Rouge," two SNCF employees, Emile Gérard and Victor Paroux (not Bernard and Potraux), who were bringing a locomotive from Nantes to Auray, saw a dark object take off producing a violet light and follow them for 15 seconds before suddenly veering off and changing direction. Mr. Paroux was so scared that he fell ill and had to see a doctor. (Jacques Vallée: "Chronique des apparitions ET" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 262) (M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, le premier dossier complet.." - éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 93, 94)

#1954, September 30
FRANCE, Blanzy
On Thursday, September 30 (not October 1) around 1:00 PM two masons, MM Romain De Bastiani (Sébastiani?) and Bruno Burato (Buratto?) at the Saint Louis quarter, approached to within 100 m of an object shaped like a cigar, 3 m long and 80 cm wide, which rose from the ground vertically with a very soft whistling. The pointed part of the object was yellow, the rest brown. (From the front extended two appendices that touched the ground). (M. FIGUET: J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, le premier dossier complet..." ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 94, 95) (Jacques Vallée: "Chronique des apparitions ET" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 263 which cites October 1 and gives the names and details in parentheses)

#1954, September 30
FRANCE, Chéreng (Nord)
Jean-Claude Delmotte, 10 years old, was walking along the path of the chapel
on the edge of the Chéreng woods. 300m away he saw a dark sphere that became yellow-orange. The yellow light became more intense
and began to shine brightly. The sphere took off vertically with a
low noise and threw sparks downwards. Only the young witness
and his little friends Lison and Besanger found footprints of
"webbed feet" about 16 cm long. During the investigation the ground was
trampled by horses and carts. (following October 3, 1954) (M.
FIGUET: J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, le premier dossier complet..." ed. Alain
Lefeuvre 1979, p. 95, 96)

#1954, September 30
FRANCE, Maisoncelles en Brie (Seine et Marne)
Two road workers, Bernard Goujon and Armand Pichet, were working on the road. It was 5:10 pm. Their attention was drawn to a craft that was losing altitude and landed 300 m away from them next to a square of poplar trees.
"I wanted to approach it, but when I got to 150 m I was literally rooted to the spot by an invisible force. However, I saw it much better. The craft was resting on three legs and had a diameter of about 6m. A few seconds later it rose from the ground in complete silence, became very bright and moved away at a speed much higher than that of airplanes." (GARREAU and LAVIER: "Face aux extra-terrestres" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 144, 145) IN REALITY: the hoaxers confessed their trickery to the investigating magistrate. (M. FIGUET: J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, le premier dossier complet..." éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 656, 657)

#1954, September 30
FRANCE, Brest, at sea
At sea, between Brest and Rouan, the crew of the tanker Port-Lyautey observed, at dusk, an object that came to touch the surface of the sea then flew vertically. It emitted a red flame and ceased to be visible. (Jacques Vallée: "Chronicle of ET Appearances" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 262, 263)

#1954, September 30
FRANCE, Ile de Ré
At 10:00 PM, as Céleste Simonutti was returning home near La Flotte-en-Ré, he saw a bright light. Fearing a fire, he rushed to the scene and observed a luminous sphere 12 m in diameter suspended at 1 m altitude. The sphere then turned red and then blue before flying away. Two other witnesses. (Jacques Vallée: "Chronique des apparitions ET" - DENOEL 1972 - COLL. J'AI LU - p. 263)

#1954, September 30
USA, Dearborn (Michigan)
A man saw in a field a disc-shaped object and its crew of 14 small men dressed in green. (Inforespace n° 48 of 1979, p. 31)

#1954, September
France, Valbarelle
Albert Sion was trying out a motorcycle he had just bought. At the height of the Cuges woods, in the Var region, his engine stalled and refused to start again. He then saw, fifteen meters away from him, a flying saucer resting on a mound. He wanted to approach it but suddenly felt paralyzed to the point of falling seated. Then the object took off and disappeared from his view in thirty seconds. Before leaving on his motorcycle, whose engine had finally started, Sion had noticed that his watch had stopped. It even had to be repaired. (Jean SIDER: "Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués" - ed. Ramuel 1999, p. 144)

#1954, September 30th or October 1st
FRANCE, Toulouse
Mme XX, fearing a rain shower, brought in her laundry around 1:30 PM. From the garden, behind her home, the view extended over a valley to a height topped by an old mill. In a field, to the left of the road leading to the mill, she saw two shiny objects in the shape of discs on the ground, a few meters apart and 100 m from her. She called her husband, who came. They observed two small beings who approached each other, headed towards their respective apparatus which they reintegrated as if they were merging into it. The objects took off and disappeared. (M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, le premier dossier complet..." ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 99)