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• January

• Observation at Marignane (France).

• Observation in Arras (France).

• Observation in Lunéville (France).

• Observation in Constantine (Algeria).

• Observation in Sétif (Algeria).

• Observation at Ouled Djellal (Algeria).

• January 28, 10:15: In Rangeley (Maine), Wilhelm Reich observed two bright lights moving in the valley, in front of the mountain for 15 minutes. unresolved Blue Book case{.source}

• February

• February 3: Siege of Dien Bien Phu valley in northwestern Vietnam.

• 14:00: In Lombez (Gers), after observing a stationary object at a very low altitude, vertically above a bridge, Mrs. Jandot and 3 other anonymous witnesses part in silence, a behavior that Mrs. Jandot herself cannot explain, to the point of finding it abnormal. Psychological effect? [[LDLN n° 176, p.15]{.source}

• February 15th, 11am: At Coniston (Cumbria, England), Stephen Darbishire (14 years old) and a friend were playing near the Old Man of Coniston when they noticed a strange misty object. Stephen managed to take 2 photos of the object with a Kodak box camera when it disappeared into the sky, resulting in 2 blurry photographs showing a "classic" saucer of the type of Adamski. He was put under strong pressure and admitted it was a hoax. Mysterious Britain{.source}

• February 20: President Eisenhower disappears for 48 hours from his Palm Springs residence, missing a weekly press conference, offering embarrassed and contradictory explanations (an unfortunate swallowed chicken bone, and a lost filling requiring the intervention of a dentist).

• February 24: President Eisenhower approves the recommendation of the NSC to build the DEW Line.

• February 26, 2:30 PM: In Newburyport (Massachusetts), architect R. M. Pierce, naval engineer George Avery and other people observe a silver disc, with a white band, emitting a very loud rumble for 30 to 60 seconds. [[case Blue Book #2913 unsolved]]{.source}

• March

• March 2, 10 PM: Near Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) the research engineer R. C. Swengel observed 3 objects, each bearing 2 lights, flying straight at medium speed. [[case Blue Book #2923 unsolved]]{.source}

• March 5, 8 PM: At Nouasseur (French Morocco), crews of USAF KC-97 tanker planes observe an object or light passing them by, another flying at their level. [[case Blue Book #2926 unsolved]]{.source}

• March 12, 9:35 AM: At Nouasseur (French Morocco), 1st Lieutenant of the USAF Robert Johnson takes off in his F-86 to pursue an object moving at over 530 miles/h. For 30 seconds, he is unable to catch up to it. The object appears to be the size of a fighter jet but has neither tanks nor stripes. [[case Blue Book #2937 unsolved]]{.source}

• In Santa Maria (Brazil), a man observes 2 occupants of an oval craft speaking a foreign language. The craft disappears instantly, without a sound.

• Captain Charles Hardin becomes director of the Blue Book project.

• April

• April 8(9?), 4:30 PM: In Chicago, Illinois, Lelah Stoker observed a round topped disc and a humanoid suspended below it, skimming the water, landing, and an occupant in a green suit walking around. The object quickly took off. [[case Blue Book #2962 unsolved]]{.source}

• April 23, 9:30 AM: F.E. Robinson and his wife observe for 4 minutes an object like a silver dollar with a dome and a pulsating light emitting a sound resembling a swarm of bees. It hovers and tilts, flies horizontally, then rises vertically without leaning. The stones below move. [[case Blue Book #2974 unsolved]]{.source}

• April 24, 6:10 PM: In Hartland, Maine, D. Robinson observed for 15 minutes a large silver, oblong object with a dome and a pulsating light flying straight and then rising. unresolved Blue Book case{.source}

• April 26, 7:35 PM: At Athens (Georgia), C. Cartey, H. Hopkins, his wife and daughter observed for 10 seconds between 15 and 20 yellow objects flying in a south-north axis in a V formation. [[case Blue Book #2983 unsolved]]{.source}

• Late April, afternoon: At Bois-du-Champ (Vosges), Roger Rougeolle and Gilbert Doridant see a gigantic UFO in the shape of a dirigible, motionless a few centimeters from the ground. Its hull appears to be made of steel and to make sure, Rougeolle approaches it as closely as possible and tries to hit it with the flat of his axe. He finds himself thrown a few meters back by a force distributed uniformly over his body. The witness estimates that he felt a paralysis effect that immobilized him until the object left. [LDLN N° 275-276, p. 27]{.source}

• Spring

• 2:40 AM: In Menton (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), a witness observed the occupant of a landed saucer take a tubular object attached to its belly (belt?) and direct it towards him, who felt paralyzed. Then, the witness lost consciousness. When he regained his senses, the saucer had taken off and was moving away from the witness [[LDLN n° 126, p. 8]]{.source} Figuet, p. 169{.source}.

• 3am: One Sunday morning, in Mattydale (New York State), in this suburb of Syracuse, an information specialist and his wife see an object about 6m in diameter on the ground. Several men are examining it and taking pictures. The next day, an officer told them it was a military secret. Later, the police denied the whole affair.

• May

• May 10, 12:40: At Elsinore (California), Squadron Leader of the US Marine Corps D. R. Higgin, at the controls of his F3D-2 jet, observed for a few seconds a metallic object in the shape of a delta, 22 feet long and 10 wide, with a fin at its top, descending with an angle of 25 to 300 below the leading aircraft of a formation, and above his aircraft. [[case Blue Book #2994 unsolved]]{.source}

• May 11, 10:45: At Washington National Airport, D.C., 3 USAF air police officers observe on 3 occasions for about 45 seconds, 2 bright lights flying straight, making a 90° turn, and gradually disappearing. [[case Blue Book #2997 unsolved]]{.source}

• Donald Keyhoe announces that 2 artificial satellites are orbiting around the Earth; they defy the laws of physics and their orbit is very irregular. They are not man-made devices.

• May 22, 9:15 PM: At La Porte (Indiana), highway engineer R. W. Dring and engineer Geert Tibma observe the superficial ascent of a bright light for 45 seconds. [[case Blue Book #3009 unsolved]]{.source}

• May 31, 10:15am: In Concord (New Hampshire), Miss L.K. Stevens observed an elongated and very white object flying extremely fast, then blinking after 8 to 10 seconds. [[case Blue Book #3020 unsolved]]{.source}

• June

• The company Avro Canada releases a report titled Project Y2: Supersonic Flat-Wing Gyroplane with Vertical Takeoff and Landing.

• June 1st, 9 PM: 400 miles south of Minneapolis (Minnesota), the crew of a USAF B-47 jet bomber at an altitude of 34000 feet observed for 1 hour an object with moving lights flying between 24000 and 44000 feet. [[case Blue Book #3029 unsolved]]{.source}

• June 8(9?)

• 1 h (2 h 30?): At Texarkana (Texas), L.T. Prewitt, an employee of Red River Arsenal, observed for 2 minutes a yellow-golden light flying above his house, making a "shhh" or buzzing sound. [[case Blue Book #3037 unsolved]{.source}

• June 10, 9:09 PM: At Estacado (Texas), USAF Captain Bill McDonald is in flight. He observes a white light descending at 45° from a high altitude, passing under his aircraft, making a 360° turn and leaving after 30s. [[case Blue Book #3042 unsolved]]{.source}

• June 11: Astronomer Percy Wilkins observes from an airplane 3 egg-shaped objects coming out of the clouds.

• June 22, 9 PM: In Miami Beach (Florida), US Marine Corps Major E. Buchser and Major J. V. Wilkins observe for 7 minutes an object similar to a meteor descending, stopping, and becoming extremely bright. [[case Blue Book #3062 unsolved]]{.source}

• June 24, 12:45 PM: In Danvers (Massachusetts), R. B. Tomer, Director of Commercial Engineering for CBS-Hytron, observed a white, elliptical-shaped object covering 45% of the sky in 30 seconds. [[case Blue Book #3067 unsolved]]{.source}

• June 25, 5:05 PM: At Indian Lake (Ohio), the experienced private pilot John Mark is flying a Navion glider. The radar of the Dayton (Ohio) airport detects a very fast object in this area. Mark observes for 3 to 5 minutes a rounded object with a flat bottom, silver or aluminum, raised at the front, with an inverted cone at the top, and a diameter of about 60 feet flying horizontally, gliding, making a phenomenal climb and a vertical ascent towards the clouds. [[case Blue Book #3072 unsolved]]{.source}

• June 29: Observation of Goose Bay (Labrador).

• June 30 Photo at Keflauik (Iceland).

• July 1st, 12 PM: The radars of the Griffiss Air Base (New York) detect the approach of an unidentified flying object. A two-seat F-94 Starfire fighter jet armed with missiles is immediately sent to intercept it. As it approaches the craft, an intense heat suddenly fills the cockpit. It becomes so unbearable that the radar operator, then the pilot, are forced to eject. As the UFO moves away, the F-94 dives into the Walesville agglomeration where it hits a house, catches fire and ends its course on a car, killing its 4 passengers (a couple and their 2 children). The disaster causes 5 other injuries, 2 of them seriously. The 2 aviators, safe and sound, are quickly recovered by USAF cars and the military authorities order them total silence on the matter (to the point of forbidding the pilot, very shocked, to go see the injured and explain what happened to the victims' parents). But, before being taken back to the base, the pilot has time to report the strange phenomenon to a journalist who rushed to the scene (Keyhoe).

• July 2

• The USAF issued an official statement on the incident of the previous day: the plane had taken off in an emergency to intercept an unknown aerial object at all costs and the mission had been successfully accomplished. The crash of the plane was due to an engine failure. The USAF categorically denied the journalist's allusions to an unbearable heat that would have forced the crew to eject while the F-94 engine was still running. In 1968, 14 years later, Donald Keyhoe would learn from one of his contacts at the USAF headquarters that the pilot had been the victim of some kind of mental blank between the moment the radar operator had jumped and the moment his own parachute had opened. In fact, he did not remember having ejected... The radar operator, on the other hand, had not felt anything like it.

• At the place called Le Château (Nièvre), Justin Creux, a grocer from Vielmanay, is driving in his car. He is suddenly blinded by an intense light. Then he hears a detonation and his windshield shatters. Nevertheless, he manages to stop his vehicle. Le Regional de Cosne, 3 July 1954, p. 2 and 4{.source}

• July 3: Photo of "The 7 Radar Echoes of July 3" (photo at images/1954-07-03.jpg - not archived)

• July 11: Lord Dowding declares in the Sunday Dispatch to be convinced that UFOs are real and cannot have been manufactured on Earth.

• July 15: Flight of the prototype of the Boeing 707.

• July 18: Sighting in Normandy (Missouri). [[case Blue Book #3116 unsolved]]{.source}

• In the province of Izmir (Turkey), thousands of witnesses observe unidentified flying objects, flying at high speed from East to West. [Turkish Press Agency, July 30th 1954 < Unidentified objects observed above the province of Izmir, Nicosia, Falkla Sesi, July 31st 1954]{.source}

• July 30: Sighting in Los Angeles (California). [[case Blue Book #3140 unsolved]]{.source}

• Summer

• Significant increase in observations in France and Italy. Besides Europe, the United States, South America, West Africa, New Zealand and Australia are also affected.

• In the morning: At Trois-Fonds (Creuse), an anonymous witness rides a bicycle when he makes a RR3. He is plunged into a state of stupor and has the impression of pedaling in the void. His state of stupor lasts for a few days. Figuet, p.70-71{.source}

• August

• August 1st: End of the Indochina War.

• 2 August: Observation at Westlake (Ohio). [[case Blue Book #3149 unsolved]]{.source}

• In the morning: In Saint Sauveur-la-Sagne (Puy-de-Dôme), Mrs. Carrière and two other anonymous witnesses make a RR3 and say they were paralyzed as if struck by lightning. In a nearby field, two cows fell to the ground and twisted their necks, as if they had been tortured. [[C. Garreau and R. Lavier, Face aux Extra-Terrrestres, J. P. Delarge, p. 198-199]]{.source}

• August 4th, 11 PM: On a clear night in La Hague (Netherlands), 10 firefighters and their chief saw 2 "flying saucers", of flattened oval shape and a light of whitish gray, above the city and at high altitude. They move at incredible speeds, or sometimes remain motionless for 30 s. All observers agree that the objects could not be an airplane or a balloon. [["Flying Saucers" above La Hague, A. Sterdas, Telegraaf, August 6th 1954]{.source}]

• August 6: Sighting in San Antonio (Texas). [[case Blue Book #3155 unsolved]]{.source}

• August 11: Observation in the Pacific Ocean. [[case Blue Book #3162 unsolved]]{.source}

• August 12: General Twining's AF200-2 Directive ordering to not disclose any UFO-related information to the public.

• August 15: Observation in San Marcos (Texas). [[case Blue Book #3166 unsolved]]{.source}

• August 16, 6 PM: In Tananarive (Madagascar) Edmond Campagnac and other witnesses see a green light ball pass above them followed by a metallic-looking elongated craft.

• August 17, 10 AM: At Yeni Asir (Turkey), as the Ayvalik-... approach the intersection with the Bergana road, passengers observe an oval silver object in the air. Mustafa Turnat, one of the 25 passengers, states that the object seemed very close to the ground and was emitting a sound, rose up, and disappeared. FBIS{.source}

• August 19, 8:45 PM: 3 inhabitants of Haard (Austria), on Lake Constance, observe a "flying saucer". A carpenter named Fessler, his stepson and Kloser, a teacher, describe it as follows: a small, shiny, disc-shaped object, about twice the size of Venus, arrived from the southwest, flying towards Pfaender. Suddenly it turned and flew in the opposite direction, making abrupt zigzags above Bregens. After about 2 minutes, it disappeared into a group of clouds. [["Flying saucer" observed above Bregenz], Vienna, Neue Wiener Tageszeitung, August 21, 1954]{.source}

• August 20: On a beautiful afternoon, two young sisters are picking blueberries in the woods when they meet a stranger whose language they do not understand. He is of medium height, his face with rather dark skin is pleasant, his eyes seem a bit oblique and his hair is long, naturally wavy. The stranger wears some kind of jumpsuit with a wide belt, without buttons or visible closures, tight at the neck and wrists. The sisters are struck by the impression of kindness he gives them. As they cannot talk to each other, he draws them a picture that seems to evoke the solar system, then he leads them to a curious machine on the ground, resembling two giant pots stuck one on top of the other, gray-blue in color. He slips inside through a hatch after making them sign to step back. The two young girls see the machine rise gently to about 30 m, with a slight buzzing, after which it starts to spin very fast and disappears in an instant.

• August 23: A vertical cigar-shaped object 100 m in length is observed for 4 minutes by 4 witnesses, dropping discs 300 m above Vernon.

"- August 24"

• Observation near the Largafiot River (Iceland). [[case Blue Book #3180 unsolved]]{.source}

• The weekly magazine Aviation Week claims that the 2 satellites reported in May by Donald Keyhoe are spinning while staying at a distance of 600 to 900 km from the Earth's surface.

• August 26: Sighting in Danville (Virginia). [[case Blue Book #3182 unsolved]]{.source}

"- August 27"

• Observation in Dorchester (Massachusetts). [[case Blue Book #3185 unsolved]]{.source}

    -   **16 h** : In Istanbul (Turkey), 2 unidentified flying objects were observed traveling at an altitude of 5000 m. One of the objects, which appeared to the southwest of the city of Bozat, maintained its course and remained in a northeast direction. The other object began an ascent to a considerable altitude and then disappeared in the same direction. [[*Unidentified objects observed over the province of Tunceli*, Istanbul, August 27, 1954]]{.source}
  

• August 28: In Oklahoma City, a hundred people observe a formation of 15 flying discs. Upon the approach of jet fighter planes, they group together in a half-circle and quickly escape.

• 29 August: Observation at Prince Christian (Greenland) [[case Blue Book #3189 unsolved]]{.source}

• August 30: Jolivet, a resident of Paris, sees a circular, luminous object flying above the city. After his report was published in the press, many other people (the source gives names and addresses) reported seeing the phenomenon on the same day. Some of the reports indicate that the object was headed South-Southwest, while others speak of Northwest; but according to Claire Cordier and André Gréfier, two natives of Angers, the object disappeared towards the North. Claire Cordier also reported a "disc" flying above her city [see September 4]. [[Many People See Unusual Object Above Paris, Le Parisien Libéré, Paris, September 3, 1954]]{.source}

• September 1st: Creation of the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD).

• Photo of the B-57B and an unidentified detail above Edwards AFB in September. [[NiCAP]{.source}

• 20 h 20: An object in the shape of a disc was observed simultaneously by various people, flying above Angers and Lion d'Angers (Maine-et-Loire) and above Château Gontier (Mayenne). The object is generally described as dark or emitting a strange blue or green smoke trail. According to Claire Cordier, a nurse from Angers, the object emitted a faint buzzing sound, and its glow resembled that of neon tubes. The phenomenon remained visible for several minutes. [[A "flying disc" observed in the West of France, Alger Républicain, 4 September 1954]]{.source}

• September 4, Night: In Calcutta (Singapore), a mysterious light is observed traveling at high speed. Several people report the observation to the British aviation authorities of the Kallang airfield [sic, Kallang?]. A British representative states that at least 6 people reported the light. Rosemary Whitley, the wife of a government radio engineer, states that she saw a huge white light moving at very high speed above the airfield. [Strange lights above an airfield, September 6, 1954 < FBIS]{.source}

• September 5

• Observation at Butler (Missouri). [[case Blue Book #3196 unsolved]]{.source}

• Observation at Butler (Missouri). [[case Blue Book #3198 unsolved]]{.source}

• September 7

• 0 h 15 : Near Acheux-en-Amiénois (Somme), Emile Renard, a 27 year old mason, and Yves de Guillerrez, his assistant - both considered reliable people - saw an object gray in color resembling a truncated kilometer marker with a large plate resting on top, from the road where they were working. The object, about 10 m in diameter and 3 m in height, oscillated slowly in suspension like a helicopter above the ground, without ever touching it. It did not emit light, and seemed to have a door on its side. After the men had run up to 50 m from it, it flew away without a sound, leaving a trail of smoke escaping from a small conduit. After an oblique flight of about fifteen meters, the object rose vertically, and disappeared. The witnesses observed the object for at least 3 minutes. The police did not find any traces. [[Unidentified objects seen in the Somme department, Paris-Dakar, 10 September 1954] [Le Parisien Libéré, 14 September 1954]]{.source}

• 0 h 30 : Robert Chovel, his wife and his father-in-law return home from the Hirson (Aisne) theater when they see a "disk" of red-orange light flying above the railway track. The disk suddenly stops, in the middle of the road, at 300 or 400 m from the ground. It seems to have at its top a small luminous fin constituting a part of the object. When the motorists reach the Boire bridge, they see what they think is a "flying saucer" gaining altitude; as soon as the car headlights point to it, the object starts flying at high speed towards La Hérie, 3 or 4 km away, and disappears. [[A "flying disk" observed in the department of Aisne, Le Parisien Libéré, September 14, 1954]]{.source}

• A civil servant reported seeing above Kaspala (Uganda), a strange golden ball that appeared smaller than the Moon but larger than a star. Other inhabitants of East Africa claim to have recently seen "flying saucers". ["Flying Saucers Seen in East Africa", Le Parisien Libéré, 14 September 1954]{.source}

• September 10th, 10:30 PM

• At Quarouble (Nord), meeting of Marius Dewilde.

• In Valenciennes (Nord), a bus stalls and its headlights go out, causing a brief panic.

• September 12: In Quarouble (Nord), an anonymous merchant driving his car is paralyzed by a green beam emanating from a craft that takes off, and a gust is felt.

• September 13: 3 dead cows are discovered in a pasture near Dewilde. An autopsy will reveal that the animals were drained of their blood.

• September 14

• The Night: Several people see a circular object above Helsinki. The object, flying at an altitude of 300 m, emits an intense light and leaves a reddish smoke trail about 3 times its diameter. It is visible for 7s. ["Flying Saucer" above Helsinki, Franc-Tireur, Paris, September 15, 1954]{.source}

• Near Grosseto (Tuscany, Italy), 2 inhabitants of Pitigliano observe a round and white object making a strange and powerful noise. The object stops then disappears at high speed. [ [An Unusual Flying Object Seen in Tuscany, Franc Tireur, Paris, 17 September 1954]{.source}

• September 15, 8am: According to the report of Lecière, a press correspondent in Carpiquet (Calvados), a witness saw for 2 minutes a white light point appear in the sky and quickly increase in size, revealing an oval shape and an unusual brightness. The witness denied having had a hallucination, and a similar observation was made in Thaon (Calvados). [Unusual Objects Observed Above Normandy, Franc-Tireur, Paris, September 16, 1954]{.source}

• September 17

• Near Cenon (Gironde), a farmer is riding a bicycle. He suddenly feels itches running through his body. Surprised, he gets off his bike. He is then paralyzed while, in front of him, appears what he called a machine. At that moment, a small creature dressed in a kind of diving suit approaches him emitting strange sounds. It touches his shoulder, and leaves in the machine which starts in a flash emitting a green light. After its departure, the witness comes out of his paralysis state. The description corresponds to the one made by Marius Dewilde a week earlier.

• In the afternoon, the control tower of Ciampino Air Base (Italy) observed a mysterious object in the shape of a half-cigar flying slowly at an altitude of about 1200 m. The object, leaving a luminous smoke trail, was visible for 40 minutes. The occupants of the tower saw the object plunge 400 m and then regain its previous altitude, moving from a horizontal position to a vertical position. When the object moved towards the sea, the Ciampino tower alerted the Pratica di Mare tower (30 km from Rome), which spotted and tracked the object on its radar screen for almost 20 minutes. The radar showed the presence of an antenna located at the center of the widest part of the object. [Un objet mystérieux observé au-dessus de Rome, Paris-Dakar, 20 September 1954]{.source}

• September 18

• Observation at the USAF base in Kimbo (Korea). [[case Blue Book #3213 unsolved]{.source}

• In Danane (Côte d'Ivoire), a crowd of thousands of people is flown over by a disc.

• September 19th, 10 PM: In Cénon/Vouneuil-sur-Vienne (Vienne), Yves David is paralyzed by a green light. Le Libre Poitou, Poitiers, September 30th 1954, p. 5{.source}

• September 21

• Observation in Barstown (California). [[case Blue Book #3222 unsolved]{.source}

• Observation at the Santa Maria Airport (Azores). [[case Blue Book #3224 unsolved]]{.source}

• September 22

• Observation at Marshfield (Missouri). [[case Blue Book #3226 unsolved]]{.source}

• 8:00 PM: Mr. Rabot, a butcher from Ponthierry (Seine-et-Oise), is driving on Nationale 7 and observes for several minutes a circular red object with a luminous smoke that seems to be coming out of it. The object appears to be at a considerable altitude and moves in all directions very slowly. Mr. Rabot gets back in his car and returns to Ponthierry while keeping an eye on the apparition. In Ponthierry, he informs the village's appariteur, who observes the disappearance of the phenomenon at great speed in the clouds. At that moment, Mrs. Gamundi (192 av Jean Jaurès in Paris) is driving north on Nationale 7, leaving Fontainebleau. She is in the forest when she perceives the phenomenon and stops. She describes the object as a red cigar surrounded by clouds, motionless, vertical, and sees it give birth to more than a dozen flying saucers that fall one after the other from the lower part of the cigar. When a commercial aircraft crosses the sky, the phenomenon definitively moves away Vallée 1966.

• Evening: In Paris, pedestrians on the Esplanade des Invalides see and then disappear in the clouds 2 small luminous balls. Among the witnesses is Michèle Morgan.

• September 23

• Michèle Morgan recounts her observation from the night before, and receives mockery from journalists and songwriters.

• Observation in Gatlinburg (Tennessee). [[case Blue Book #3227 unsolved]{.source}

• September 24

• 09 h : At Diges (Yonne), Mr. and Mrs. Geoffroy Fin observe a RR3. 2 distant tracks of 50 cm wide as a finger are noticed in the dew by Miss Fin. The grass is dry at this place. Tracks too small for a Bell 47 helicopter.

• 23 h : At La Chassagne, Ussel (Corrèze), Etienne Cisterne is driving his tractor and sees a kind of luminous craft coming straight towards him at a very low altitude. He flees in terror. A tree seems to have been affected by intense heat at its upper part.

• 6 observations from this day geographically aligned from Bayonne to Vichy (including Ussel) will be spotted by Aimé Michel, who will develop the othoteny theory, notably in his book Mystérieux Objets Célestes (MOC). Jacques Vallée will name the alignment BAVIC, but will eventually conclude it was simply a coincidence.

• September 25, 9:35 PM: In Joinville-le-Pont (Val-de-Marne), Louis Perret and another anonymous witness make a RR3. The witness is paralyzed by a beam emitted by a saucer. (Ici Paris, October 11, 1954, p.2). Possible hoax.

• September 26th, 2:30 PM: Meeting with Lucette Leboeuf in Chabeuil (Drôme).

• September 27

• Afternoon: In Perpignan (Pyrenees-Orientales), an anonymous student is so moved after a RR3 that he turns around and goes home. A doctor called in diagnoses a nervous breakdown.

• 8:30 PM: In Prémanon (Jura), 4 young children of the Romand family are playing in a barn. They hear their dog barking. Raymond Romand, the oldest of the children (12 years old) is worried and goes to look for the animal. Suddenly he finds himself facing a rectangular creature like a piece of sugar! The child throws stones at it and tries to get closer. An invisible and icy force prevents him and throws him to the ground. He then runs away screaming, while the creature moves away towards a meadow. When the children alert their parents, they still have time to see a bright red sphere, 150 m away, flying over the meadow.

• Photos in Pescara (Italy) on summer, September 27

• September 28: The gendarmes, led by Captain Brustel, discover on the site of the previous night in Prémano, in which the grass is laid in the direction of the clock hands. Inside, 4 holes resulting from the sinking of rectangular coins of 10 cm section, inclined at 45°. A mast, erected on the site by a holiday colony, bears scratches at 1.50 m high; at its foot, there are 2 holes identical to the previous ones.

• September 30

• 16 h 30 : Observation of Georges Gatay.

• 5:20 PM: Eugene Farnier (one of the first airplane pilots in 1907; he gave flying lessons to Guynemer and devoted his life to aviation) is walking his dog in Jouy-sur-Marin when he witnesses a spectacle that astounds him: "I first heard a whistling sound similar to that of a jet engine but much weaker, then, 300 or 400 meters above me, I saw an object shaped like a lens, 8 to 10 meters in diameter and 2 meters thick. It was gray, shiny like aluminum and emitted red and violet flames. The craft stayed in place for 20 minutes, spinning at around 300 revolutions per minute. Suddenly, it tilted and shot up vertically at a prodigious speed of several thousand kilometers per hour---without making a supersonic bang! I then made out the presence of portholes and a dome 50 cm in diameter."

• Saturday, October 2nd: In Croix d'Epine, mechanic Ernest Delatre (19 years old) is riding his scooter home when an orange, egg-shaped, brightly glowing UFO the size of a small bus lands on the road. He sees dark shapes resembling potato sacks moving alongside. As he approaches, the UFO takes off, changing color to blue. 2 other witnesses from neighboring villages also report the UFO.

• Monday, October 4th: In Poncey, Mrs. Fourneret and her son see a 3m wide, orange glowing body lying down, landing 18m away from their house. They flee. Shortly after, armed neighbors investigate the site and discover a large, freshly made hole, as if the earth had been sucked out of it. The missing earth is nowhere to be found.

• Tuesday 5 October

• 4 h 30 : At Loctudy (Finistère), meeting with Pierre Lucas.

• 7:15 : At Mertrud (France), meeting with Mr. Narcy.

• 15 h 45 : People located 10 km away from Beaumont, near Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) describe an object approaching them while losing its luminosity. When it is 150 m away from them, they feel a strange sensation and are like nailed to the ground. They also smell a scent similar to nitrobenzine. Vallée 1966{.source}

• 23 h : Near La Rochelle, Mr. and Mrs. Guillemoteau saw an engine 2 to 3 m high and 5 m in diameter that stopped at 1 m high, then rose vertically. Oil traces were reportedly found in the grass. Vallée 1966{.source}

• In the night: Joseph Roy, 30 years old, mechanic at the Panhard factories, rides his motorcycle a few meters away from the Reims to Rethel road on a side path, when he sees a bright and reddish light in front of him that suddenly disappears. When he arrives at the point where he saw the light, he notices in the fields an object 3 m long, shaped like a large shell, pierced with portholes at the front. He also distinguishes a vague silhouette. Frightened, he flees. 3 other workers would have seen the same light in the same place [[A large shell pierced with portholes in Le Lorrain (Nancy) Saturday 9-Sunday 10 October 1954, p. 7 <Sider 1997]]{.source}.

• Thursday 7 October

• At Monteux (France), M. Margaillon observed an object that landed in a field. It had the shape of a hemisphere about 2.50 m in diameter. The witness felt short of breath and paralyzed during the observation.

• In France, parliamentarians are asking in writing to the Air Force Secretariat if the French army has opened an investigation into "flying saucers", as the USA and USSR have done: 13687. - Mr. de Léotard informs Mr. the Secretary of State for the Armed Forces (Air) that the recent testimonies related to "flying saucers" and "flying cigars" have not failed to intrigue public opinion, if not to worry it; he asks: 1° if instructions have been given for these phenomena to be systematically and scientifically observed; 2° if these "saucers" or "cigars" could not be chased to be better observed, so that the public knows exactly if it is a collective autosuggestion to dissipate, or if there is a need to take these phenomena into account in terms of national serenity and defense [ [Official Journal of Thursday January 27, 1955 < Velasco 2004]]{.source}.

• 7:30 PM: Landing in the Forbach region (Moselle). Interested in this case, Jean Sider wrote in 1989 to the Ministry of Defense and the General Directorate of the National Gendarmerie who replied that the file was classified for 60 years.

• Saturday 9 October

• 7 h : An agricultural worker (riding a bicycle?) near Lavoux, near Poitiers (Vienne), sees a creature 1 m tall, dressed in a kind of diving suit, with bright eyes and long hair. The creature aims at him with a double beam of light, and seems to have heel-less boots, a hairy chest, and two headlights, one below the other, at the front of its clothing.

• 11:45: In Alès (Gard), several witnesses, including Mr. Taurelle (working at Riche-Hôtel) saw an immobile saucer, spinning on itself, then quickly disappearing while accelerating Vallée 1966{.source}.

• 18:30: Observation of Pournoy-la-Chétive (Moselle): children skating see a luminous machine and an occupant with a luminous instrument in hand, speaking to them in an incomprehensible language.

• Sunday 10 October

• 23 h: At the Metz fair (...) the army had installed a radar system as well as anti-aircraft searchlights. (...) one of the powerful searchlights, which swept the sky to the delight of the onlookers, suddenly caught in its beam a mysterious object. It was a kind of luminous globe, motionless in the sky and which, according to the expression of some witnesses, "sparkled like a Christmas tree ball". The officer present estimated that the object must have been at least 50 m in diameter, and that it seemed to be about 10000 m high. To make sure it was not a phenomenon or an optical illusion, it was decided to carry out a complete cleaning of the searchlight. The charcoal was also changed and relit. The object was still there. For 3 hours, the device remained motionless. It looked like a kind of vertical cigar. But since nothing was happening, they finally turned off the searchlight. Commander Cotel, who was in charge of the anti-aircraft detachment, sent a report to the military governor of Metz. "There is no need to take into account this information in this particular case". The case was closed. Not a word of the observation made not only by the technicians but also by the visitors, and by the inhabitants of Metz up to the suburbs of Sablon and Queuleu. The object had the shape of a small motionless and regular-shaped cumulus. But its shape, its dimensions and its position remained rigorously identical, moreover the sky was perfectly clear except for this supposed cumulus. Which would rule out the possibility of a cloud. Now, a diameter of 50 m is a lot for a balloon... Strangely enough, the radar had constantly swept the sky during the observation, without catching anything. This could mean two things: either the object was not metallic, or it was out of range of the type of radar that was operating in Metz Sider 1997{.source}.

• In the night: In Moncourt (64 km from Metz, 43 km from Nancy) inhabitants of an isolated farm, a few hundred meters from Moncourt, were awakened by a strange whistling. Through the shutters they distinguished a blinding light that seemed to be located on the side of the hill. A few minutes later, they saw a luminous sphere rise vertically and disappear quickly. The next day, in the afternoon, the gendarmes led by the farmer to the place where the strange light seemed to have landed, discovered traces of intense calcination on a dirt road. Samples of soil and stones were taken (...) The results of the analyses were never known. Sider 1997 > LDLN{.source}

• Monday, October 11th: In Royan, 3 people from Bordeaux saw a red light above the coast at nightfall. They moved closer to the phenomenon and saw an object in the shape of a disk, with an orange-red dome, hovering about ten meters above the ground. A little further away, the Bordeaux people were surprised to see 4 creatures about 1 meter tall, crouching under the device. These quickly returned to their craft, which took off while changing color.

• Wednesday, October 13: Observation at Nouasseur (French Morocco) [[case Blue Book #3260 unsolved]]{.source}

• Thursday 14 October

• Meeting of Starovski, near Erchin (France).

• 4:15 PM: In Essex (England), Lieutenant James Saladin flying above the Thames Estuary near Southend in a Meteor Mark 8, notices 3 objects approaching him. 2 of the objects, one gold and one silver, fly on either side of his aircraft, and one directly in his flight path. He reports the incident to the airbase. Mysterious Britain{.source}

• Friday, October 15: In Thionville, a "saucer" is again reported as well as a "Martian" roaming in the nearby countryside. The police, armed to prepare for any eventuality and assisted by citizens armed with pitchforks, go to the scene and, after a large encirclement maneuver, manage to apprehend a small individual, with a shaggy beard and ultimately human appearance. Taken to a security post and vainly interrogated for more than 2 hours, he maintains complete silence. The "Martian" obviously does not understand French and the best German, Polish, Italian, English, etc. interpreters pass in front of him one after the other; but all without success, as he still does not answer the questions asked. Yielding to discouragement and not knowing which saint to turn to, the gendarmes are ready to give up when the person starts speaking in a language dear to the Grand Ducal neighbors: "Enough with this comedy, is there anyone here who can speak Luxembourgish?" Stupefaction and consternation among the "Martian hunters", exclaiming with dismay: "Another ... Luxembourger!". [[Sider 1997]{.source}

• René Dejean, deputy of Ariège, sends a written question to the President of the Council, asking for explanations about the numerous observations that are taking place in the heart of the Hexagon. During the wave that affects France, a 2 hour meeting is organized within the office of the Prime Minister at the time, Pierre Mendès-France. In addition to him, Mr. Temple, Minister of National Defense and his 3 Secretaries of State (War, Navy and Air) are present. Several decisions come out of this meeting, including the creation of a secret commission in mid-October 1954 (its existence will be made public in the Official Journal of January 12, 1955), the SEMOC. Huleux{.source}

• October 15-17: Observation at Kingfisher (Oklahoma). [[case Blue Book #3269 unsolved]]{.source}

• Saturday 16 October

• In Thin-le-Moutiers (Isère), a woman sees a flying saucer land at her feet and faints. She later suffers from a skin disease. [[Vallée 1966]]{.source}

• At Cier-de-Rivière, Guy Puyfourcat returns from the fields holding his mare by the bridle, when he is overflown by an object gray of 1.50 m of diameter. His mare is then "sucked" by the UFO and rises up to a height of 3 m. Then the animal falls to the ground, stunned. The witness, who had to let go of the bridle during the levitation of the mare, claims to have felt nothing during this strange adventure.

• The "Michelin Man" reported by the Mozin. [[LDLN no. 191, p.34]]{.source}

• Photo taken in Taormina (Sicily) (file images/1954-10-16_Maubeuge.jpg)

• Sunday, October 17: Mr. Mozin, on his way to Reims to attend a football match with his friend Mr. Houssière, stops at the place where he saw the object the day before to check for traces, hoping to prove to his friend that he had not dreamed. In a narrow space between a 1 m wide and 50 cm deep ditch and the road, 3 semi-circular and deep imprints of 8 to 10 cm are visible with in the center of the imaginary circle of about 1.40 m formed by these 3 imprints, a 20 cm diameter carbonized circle giving off an odor that the witness compared to that of benzene. The car must necessarily have passed between 3 and 5 meters from the object.

• Monday 18 October

  • In Fontenay-Torcy (France), a man and his wife saw in the sky an object shaped like a cigar, red in color. Suddenly, it dove towards them, leaving behind a reddish trail, and landed in the bushes. As they reached the top of a hill, the witnesses found themselves face to face with a corpulent individual, of human appearance, but no more than 1 m tall. He wore a helmet and his eyes shone an orange color. One of the two witnesses fainted.

• From another place, 4 people see the object in flight.

• At Sanson-la-Poterie, a third group of witnesses saw the aircraft take off at an extraordinary speed towards the west. The countryside was illuminated for a distance of 2 to 3 km.

• In a French rural area, a man returning from the fields with his horse must let go of the animal's reins which is lifted 1 m off the ground at the passage of a dark circular object flying over their path at high speed.

• Wednesday 20 October

• At Parravici d'Erba near Como (Italy), a man had just put his car in the garage when he saw a strange being, dressed in a luminous garment, about 1.20 m tall, standing near a tree. When it saw the motorist, the creature sent him a beam from some kind of torch; the witness remained paralyzed until the movement he made to tighten the fist that held the keys seemed to free him. He leapt forward to attack the stranger, who rose from the ground and flew away in a almost silent whirl. The narrator of this incredible story, aged 37, was considered in his country to be a man of trust. He arrived home in such a state of depression that he had to go to bed with a high fever. It was an investigation by the Italian police that allowed details of this case to be obtained.

• 18:30: Between Sarrebourg and Turquenstein (Mozelle), Jean Schoubrenner was driving near the village when an immense light shone on the road in front of him. When he arrived 18 m away from this strange inverted cone-shaped object blocking his path, he felt paralyzed, his hands stuck to the steering wheel and the engine of his vehicle stopped working. He felt a heat spreading through his body. The UFO flew away a few seconds later, and he and his vehicle returned to normal.

• Thursday 21 October: In Ranton Staffordshire, Jessie Rosenberg (29 years old) and her 2 children are flown over by an object shaped like a lens. They also see 2 humanoid silhouettes with blond hair looking down at them. They are so scared that they hide under a table in their house. Later, they would have had some psychic experiences. Mysterious Britain{.source}

• Friday 22 October: In Marysville, 15000 witnesses observe ships and angel hair falls.

• Thursday 28 October

  • The Aurore of October 28th reporting the mayor's decree of Châteauneuf-du-Pape. See photo "Summer view of Taormina (Sicily)" (file images/1954-10-28_Aurore.jpg).

• At Isla de Lobos (Uruguay), a sentinel is about to shoot at three beings standing near a dome-shaped disc placed on the platform of a lighthouse. She is immediately paralyzed and feels the premonition that it is useless to fire. The crew returns to the UFO which takes off vertically, buzzes, inclines and disappears silently at very high speed.

• In Yaoundé (Cameroon), a dog draws attention with its growls at a huge, brightly lit, stationary disc, seen by many of the city's personalities, including the head of the hospital. The object has the shape of a mushroom and at its base a cylinder swinging in the air. Vallée 1966{.source}

• Observation at Miho Air Base (Japan). [[case Blue Book #3281 unsolved]]{.source}

• October 28: In Rome (Italy), observation of Clare Booth Luce.

• October 29: Observation in the Azores. [[case Blue Book #3287 unsolved]]{.source}

• November: Creation of the Civilian Saucer Intelligence organization in New York, originally called Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York.

• November 1st: Beginning of the Algerian War.

• November 4: A Varig Brazilian Airlines C-46 on a flight from Porto Alegre to São Paulo encounters an unusual object. The pilot and co-pilot see a red light rushing towards them. Suddenly, the object appears to move in a 45° arc and grows in size before their eyes. The inside of the plane smells of burnt rubber. Once the object disappears, the pilot and co-pilot find that the radiogoniometer, generator and transmitter are damaged.

• November 19

• Photo in Taormina (Sicily). Likely fake by double exposure (see file images/1954-11-19_Taormina.jpg). Factor X{.source} [[Bettmann] ]{.source}

• The French police confirm that Marius Dewilde has made a second statement, concerning an object he had seen near his house.

• Observation in Corvallis (Oregon). [[case Blue Book # 3331 unsolved]{.source}

• November 27, between 4:15 and 4:30 PM: In Moscow (Russia), people on Red Square see an cylindrical object above their heads at a height of 200 to 300 m, moving in a Northwest direction. The object climbs with the speed of a jet, taking a vertical position. [Vallée 1966, p. 82]{.source}

• November 28

• 2 h : Meeting with Gustavo Gonzalez near Pilar de Goias (Brazil).

• Observation in Manila (Philippines). [[case Blue Book #3341 unsolved]{.source}

• December 10: Meeting of Lorenzo Flores and Jesus Gomez near Carora (Venezuela).

• November 15: Sighting in Augusta (Maine). [[case Blue Book #3326 unsolved]]{.source}

• December 16: Meeting of Jesus Paz, near San Carlos del Zulia (Venezuela).

• December 3: Observation in Gulfport (Mississippi). [[case Blue Book #3352 unsolved]]{.source}

• December 7: Observation in Cape Province (South Africa). [[case Blue Book #3356 unsolved]]{.source}

• December 16th, Night: 3 young men (Jesus Paz, Luis Mejia, a member of the National Guard and another friend) dined in a restaurant in San Carlos, then drove home. As they were in the suburbs, near a park of the Ministry of Agriculture, Paz asked his friends to stop the car so he could go to a secluded place in the park to relieve himself. Paz had barely taken a dozen steps before he called for help. His friends ran to his rescue and found him unconscious and lying on the ground. At a short distance there was a small, hairy humanoid, running towards a bright device resembling a disk, resting on the grass. Mejia had just enough time to grab a stone and throw it at the disk, which began to rise with a huge rumbling noise. Paz was quickly taken to the city hospital, where the doctors found him in shock. He also had long and deep scratches on his right side and down his spine, like claw marks, the doctor said. Paz told the authorities he had walked around a grove of large flowers, his tracks softened by the thick grass. Suddenly he would have fallen on this small humanoid and hairy creature, which was examining the flowers. Paz tried to escape but, as he turned around, the creature attacked him, first by scratching and pulling his shirt, then with a breath on the neck that knocked out Paz. [[Frank Warren, *Historic UFOs - Flying Saucers: Serious Business - 1966, Rense, August 21st 2002]{.source}

• December 27: The Michelin Man offers a discount to any Martian interested in a book about flying saucers.

• The coach of a junior baseball team films near the Great Falls in Minnesota 2 objects streaking the sky near the Air Force base. The official version is that it is a squadron of F-100s returning to their base, but the satellite photo shows that the objects are flying much too fast for this interpretation of the facts to be acceptable.

• Release of Lueurs sur les soucoupes volantes ("Lights/Glimmers on the Flying Saucers") by Aimé Michel.

• Launch of the project Sigma, whose mission is to establish contact with extraterrestrials.