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Reference for this case: 3-Oct-54-Angoulême.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
The national newspaper Franc-Tireur for October 5, 1954, reported that in Angoulême, Mr. and Mrs. Voudon saw a red saucer that turned green before "disappearing."
In 1958, ufologist Aimé Michel reported in his book "Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery" on the wave of 1954 in France, for the observations of October 3, 1954, that in Angoulême, Charente, Mr. and Mrs. Voudon saw a red circular object; which while coming closer changed to the green color and then moved away to the south.
[Ref. ftr1:] NEWSPAPER "FRANC-TIREUR":
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The "witnesses" of "flying saucer" movements have stopped being funny, so numerous... and clumsy they are. Some make genuine efforts to describe the most astonishing craft in the shape of discs, balls, cigars, even half-cigars in various colors. Some have even described a "cucumber" flying over Vienne and Deux-Sèvres.
But others undermine this mysterious scaffolding of "troubling facts" by trying too hard: Bernard Goujon, notably, the road worker from Faremoutiers (near Coulommiers), who claimed on Friday to have seen in a field a "saucer" shaped like a mushroom, of which he gladly showed the imprints and described in detail the structure, had to admit the hoax to the public prosecutor.
- I'm the one who made the imprints and I saw nothing.
After the confessions of the pranksters in Amiens and the jokers from Portugal, it must once again be acknowledged that every serious investigation into landed "saucers" leads to a hoax.
That didn't stop a group of "trustworthy" individuals from spotting yesterday a shiny craft flying between Mont Blanc and Mont Lachat.
There are more.
In the Somme (again in the Somme), in Vron, two 18-year-olds, Bernard Devoisin and René Condette, "saw" a craft with a pointed roof, shaped like a beehive, which had landed by the roadside and took off after a "small-sized" individual got inside.
In other parts of the department, orange-colored discs were seen...
In Angoulême, the saucer seen by Mr. and Mrs. Voudon turned from red to green before disappearing.
The Massif Central has not been spared. From Clermont and Vichy, a shiny mass was observed. Aurrec [sic] and Saint-Paulien (Haute-Loire) were reportedly overflown by a "large luminous ball."
In Moselle, it's all about cigars. One was seen on Sunday over Dieuze. But yesterday, three residents of Hagondange saw a "luminous diamond."
Finally, in the Nord, the saucers are multiplying. Mr. Gaston Leceune [sic], a miner in Anaullin [sic], saw a metallic dome, three meters tall, land in his garden just a few meters from him. He ran to raise the alarm at the nearby café, and about fifteen billiard players, brandishing their cues, arrived just as the saucer was taking off. Fifty meters in the air, the craft was joined by two other saucers.
To be continued.
[Ref. aml1:] AIME MICHEL:
Aimé Michel reports in his book for the observations of October 3, 1954, that in Angouleme, the Charente, Mr. and Mrs. Voudon saw a red circular object arriving, while it approached it turned to green and then moved away towards the South.
[Ref. gqy1:] GUY QUINCY:
October 3 [, 1954]
[... other cases...]
11:05 p.m.?: Angoulême (Charente): luminous sphere
[... other cases...]
[Ref. jve5:] JACQUES VALLEE:
| 200 | -000.15921 | 45.64800 | 03 | 10 | 1954 | ANGOULEME | F | 1512 | C** | 220 |
[Ref. gep1:] UFOLOGY GROUP "GEPO":
| 10/03/54 | (22.30) | Angouleme | NS | 10709V21 3m |
[Ref. lhh1:] LARRY HATCH - "*U* COMPUTER DATABASE":
3956: 1954/10/03 22:50 1 0:09:40 E 45:39:00 N 3333 WEU FRN CHN 6:7
ANGOULEME,FR:RED SCR TURNS GRN OVHD:TURNS>>S::CGR+ORBITING SCRS SEEN/05OCT/r30
Ref# 49 MICHEL,Aime: FS & STRAIGHT LINE TH: Page No. 130 : TOWN &CITY
[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:
Luc Chastan indicates that in the Charente in Angoulème on October 3, 1954 at an unknown hour, a couple saw a red circular object coming; which while approaching changed to green and then moved away towards the South.
Luc Chastan indicates that the source is "M.O.C. by Michel Aimé ** Arthaud 1958".
[Ref. dcn1] DOMINIQUE CAUDRON:
Dominique Caudron indicates that the catalogue of 800 cases published in 1970 by Maurice Santos, is a good example of what one should not do; he indicates to extract from it the list of the cases of October 3, 1954; which he knows well as he had investigated into these cases of his area of Nord. For each case, below the text of the Santos catalogue, he states what should have been written, and the explanation after analysis, when there is one.
Santos wrote that for this case #553 of "Various Forms", on October 3, 1954, in Angouleme there was a luminous Unknown Flying Object.
Dominique Caudron says that at an unknown hour, in Angoulème, 16, two witnesses see a red circular object which changes to the green and moves away towards the south. Caudron indicates that there is no other sources than Aimé Michel, and that it was in fact a possible meteor.
He notes that the numbering of the cases by Santos seemed a good idea, but that it prevents the evolution of the catalogue, whose numbering becomes incoherent at the first update: "For example, this catalogue contains only 10 cases for the area of the Nord, whereas we know 48 of them. How to place the 38 others?"
[Ref. ubk1:] "UFO-DATENBANK":
This database recorded this case 4 times:
| Case Nr. | New case Nr. | Investigator | Date of observation | Zip | Place of observation | Country of observation | Hour of observation | Classification | Comments | Identification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19541003 | 03.10.1954 | Angouleme | France | CE I | ||||||
| 19541003 | 03.10.1954 | Angouleme | France | NL | ||||||
| 19541003 | 03.10.1954 | Angouleme | France | |||||||
| 19541003 | 03.10.1954 | Angouleme | France | NL |
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Insufficient information, possible meteor.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Angoulême, Charente, Voudon, object, circular, red, green
[----] indicates sources that are not yet available to me.
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| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | August 17, 2004 | First published. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | January 9, 2009 | Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Additions [lcn1]. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | June 20, 2010 | Addition [jve5]. |
| 1.2 | Patrick Gross | October 14, 2016 | Addition [dcn1]. |
| 1.3 | Patrick Gross | February 12, 2017 | Addition [ubk1]. |
| 1.4 | Patrick Gross | November 29, 2019 | Additions [lhh1], Summary. Explanations changed, were "Not looked for yet." |
| 1.5 | Patrick Gross | April 18, 2022 | Additions [gqy1], [gep1]. |
| 1.6 | Patrick Gross | June 12, 2025 | Addition [ftr1]. In the Summary, addition of the information from [ftr1]. |
