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Reference for this case: 9-Oct-54-Trilport.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
Newspapers suc as Le Nouveau Nord Maritime and Le Havre had reported on October 13, 1954, that residents of Trilport reportedly saw a stationary machine, which the newpaper said was identical to the one seen in Meaux on October 11, 1954; which would therefore be a luminous ball followed by a luminous trail.
[Ref. nnm1:] NEWSPAPER "LE NOUVEAU NORD MARITIME":
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Riom, 12. -- During the night from Sunday to Monday, the peacekeepers Roger Thévenin and Albert Daury, of Riom's urban corps, who were doing a round, saw in the sky a cigar-shaped craft which went from South to North. Three balls of red light detached from it and illuminated for a few moments part of the sky. The cigar was metallic in appearance, similar to duralumin.
Melun, 12. -- Mr. Jules Lefranc, a bank employee living in Paris, saw in the sky, near the François de Tessart stadium in Meaux, for about three minutes, an object brightly lit from the inside which, he stated, had the shape of a small soccer ball. The object disappeared, leaving behind, said the witness, a luminous trail the size of a stove pipe.
Residents of Trilport reportedly saw an identical stationary apparatus.
Limoges, 12. -- In Saillat-sur-Vienne, Sunday evening at dusk, Mr. Roger Gayout, transporter at Limoges, his wife and relatives saw in the sky a very brilliant mysterious machine which, after having moved for a few minutes, seemed to land a few kilometers further.
Nancy, 12. -- In the night from Sunday to Monday, inhabitants of a farm located a few hundred meters from the village de Moncours (Meurthe-et-Moselle), were stirred by an abnormal whistling sound, through the shutters they distinguished a blinding glow which seemed fixed on the side of a hill and which disappeared shortly after while rising vertically. In the afternoon, research undertaken towards the place indicated by the witnesses revealed traces of intense calcination on a dirt road. Stone and earth samples were taken to be submitted to experts.
Melun, 12. -- Mr. Demarcy, a butcher at Seine-Port, and one of his friends, who were traveling by car in Nandy, said they saw a luminous disc moving at an altitude of around 800 meters. The two butchers got out of their car and followed the move of the craft for about a minute.
Mulhouse, 12. -- Having seen a light in a pasture on Sunday evening, two young girls from Heimersdorf, Anny and Roselyne Pracht, 22 and 18 years old, approached thinking it was a fire lit by a shepherd. They then saw, they claim, a machine about 2 meters high. At their approach, the barrel-shaped object, turned to glowing red, rose in the air and disappeared on the horizon. The same phenomenon was seen by two other people.
Quimper, 12. -- Mr. Corentin Couarch, 38 years old, living in the village of Elliant (Finistère), agricultural worker, saw in the sky, at 200 meters above sea level, a luminous craft whose shape and size he could not specify. He said that in fright he had turned off the lantern of his bicycle so as not to attract attention and moved away quickly. At 1 km, he said, he looked back and saw the light stopped at ground level.
Toulouse, 12. -- In the night from Saturday to Sunday, a baker from Bompas (Pyrénées-Orientales), Mr. Sebelli, saw, posed in a street in this village, a cigar-shaped object about two meters in length, surrounded by iridescent lights.
Mr. Sebelli woke up neighbors who witnessed the rapid departure of the apparatus.
Also, three young hunters saw moving yesterday above Gaillac (Aveyron), at a high altitude, an object in the shape of a cigar which described in the sky a series of large "S". Each maneuver was accompanied by a noise comparable to a jet of pressurized steam. The craft suddenly disappeared towards the North.
Finally, in Pont de Salars (Aveyron), a person saw last night u the sky, towards the sunset location, a disc surrunded of a large luminous circle with an unbearable brightness. Descended slowly toward the horizon, the disc disappeared at breakneck speed.
Melun, 12. -- A resident of Fontainebleau said he saw above Machault, a circular craft emitting a fairly bright glow, orange in color. The disc, which was about the diameter of a full moon, was moving at a fairly slow pace, crossing the sky horizontally.
La Rochelle, 12. -- A colonial teacher, currently on leave on the island of Oléron, Mr. Martin, claims to have met on the island of Oléron two pretty Martian women measuring approximately 1 m. 70, in boots, gloves and leather helmets. The two Martians took hold of Mr. Martin's pen and traced incomprehensible signs on his notebook, while trying to make themselves understood. Mr. Martin is said to have taken great care of this manuscript.
The "Martians" (broad shouldered) repair on the spot and take back the air
Munster, 12. -- Mr. Hoge, a film operator, was near Münster (Westphalia) when he saw in a field four "men" in rubber suits who were busy under an object in the shape of cigar. Mr. Hoge watched them work for ten minutes, without approaching, and, finally, the four men entered by a sort of ladder into the cigar which, after taking off, took the form of a saucer projecting a dazzling light.
The four "men" whose height was about 1.20 m. had, according to Mr. Hoge, a rather large torso, a head proportionally too large for their body and slender legs.
Three children from Pournoy-la-Chétive, near Verny (Moselle) claim that they saw a saucer and its passenger. They told their story to their parents, repeated it to the teacher, and confirmed it to the Mayor. All three were roller-skating on Friday afternoon near the cemetery. There was Gilbert Calba, 12 years old; Daniel Hirsch, 9, and his brother Jean-Pierre, 5.
"At around [?]:30, said Gilbert, we saw a luminous and round machine landing, about 2.30 meters in diameter. The craft landed very close to us. It had yellow and white stripes and landed on three feet.
"Soon a man came out, holding an electric lamp in his hand.
"He was very small (about 1.20 m), had large eyes, a hairy face and wore a sort of black cassock like the priest. The man came to speak to us in incomprehensible language and we fled, frightened.
"We looked back a little further. The very bright object rose very high and very quickly in the sky."
This story is partially confirmed by another resident of Pournoy-la-Chétive, Robert Maguin, 16, who said he also saw around the same time a mysterious machine, but he was not close enough to distinguish the details.
Albi, 12. -- A motorist from Briatexte (Tarn), Mr. Jean-Pierre Mitto, technical agent in a company currently exhibiting at the "Household Arts" of Toulouse, claims to have met, at nightfall, on the National Road Nr 631, the passengers of a flying saucer.
"Coming back from Toulouse, in the company of two relatives, he said, I suddenly distinguished in the beam of my headlights two little characters who crossed the road, barely a few meters from my car. I stopped immediately and, to our great astonishment, we then saw flying away from a neighboring meadow a large red disc with a diameter of six meters. Climbing vertically, the craft disappeared in the sky in a few seconds."
[Ref. cot1:] NEWSPAPER "COMBAT":
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The question is now posed: unknown objects cross our sky. They astonish, intrigue, sometimes worry. It's not yet a matter of concern, but it is a subject of conversation.
- Do you believe in it or not?
- In what?
- Flying saucers...
- Well... Uh...
The question will be resolved, soon, later or never... But it exists. These extraordinary phenomena manifesting in our sky and multiplying pose an entertaining or distressing enigma.
Mirage? Hallucination? Lights from another world? People wonder. Hypotheses are exchanged, but none are convincing, given on one hand the allure of dreams and on the other the materialist good faith that tries to clear away the mystery.
But the fact remains.
Dozens of people, each day, declare - under oath if required - that they have seen, with their own eyes, what is undeniably seen: these mysterious crafts. These good souls would swear on it. Unless a hoax is revealed when a good "pandore" (a slang term for policeman) steps in, there's a series of testimonies that must be taken into account.
Consistent testimonies? Oh no... Infinitely varied.
The "craft" is always luminous. Day and night. It is most often strangely silent. But sometimes it "whistles." It is small in size - just a few meters in width or diameter. But it takes on the aerodynamic and varied forms of a saucer, cigar, or barrel.
"Ad libitum" [sic]...
It is capricious in its maneuvers. Sometimes fixed like the moon. Fast as lightning. It shoots upward vertically, descends like a falling leaf, as if piloted by aeronauts who know all the secrets of joystick flight.
Aeronauts? They have been seen. In the North and in Corrèze, notably. Very small or very tall. Odd-looking or normally built. Dressed like ordinary men or covered in a kind of diving suit. In short, men or characters straight out of a comic book.
"Ad libitum," again...
But always peaceful. Even fearful. As soon as someone approaches or tries to be friendly - fraternize - poof! they return to their shiny craft and disappear with three rotations of the saucer...
Fearful and wary. Peaceful, but ready to use secret and all-powerful defensive weapons. In one case, "the one in the North," "THEY" used a "paralyzing ray," the famous "green ray" that left a curious crossing guard stunned.
"Si vis pacem, para bellum..."
These beings know the pink pages of the Larousse by heart. They don't wish harm on poor Earthlings, but, like us, they've learned the advantage of armed peace. And the "green ray" is worrying if one wishes to make (friendly) contact.
Where do they come from? Pardon: where would they come from? In Europe, in France, people readily talk of "Martians." In America, in the United States, they prefer to speak of "Venusians."
No doubt that, on the other side of the Atlantic, people vaguely dream of a new Marilyn Monroe or a second Jane Russell, who would be a hit in Chicago burlesques and on Broadway stages.
We're not there yet. Miss Venus won't be competing in the next "Miss Universe" elections, and the Martian team won't be breaking world records at the Melbourne Olympics.
No, we're not there yet. But everything is happening, truthfully, as if the inhabitants of another planet were multiplying their "reconnaissance flights" toward Earth.
It was first talked about in 1947 in America. Everyone knows the U.S. prides itself on always being on the cutting edge of progress... Back then, the craft flew in squadrons at high altitude.
They grew bolder, the craft.
They performed impressive low-altitude flybys, which left rural populations bewildered. Then they dared, here and there, to attempt furtive landings.
Witnesses multiplied. The first were only greeted with serious headshakes, like those in Marseille when the "madman's house" was built. One has the right to be skeptical - reserved - about the future.
And when more witnesses came forward, credible ones, one wondered what to believe.
For now, all hypotheses are still valid. But the one based on the existence of another inhabited planet gains ground every day.
Why not?
Who says there isn't, "elsewhere," a land where the Creator God placed men? These men, with nothing against the idea, could be from an "era" more advanced than us poor little Earthlings. It wouldn't be outrageous if they weren't "in our image and likeness," as the Bible says.
America and Russia are preparing rockets "for the moon." They may have already been beaten in the interplanetary race. It might not be Earth that achieves contact with Mars or Venus, but rather Mars or Venus that achieves contact with Earth sooner than we think.
Fiction, all of this?
Maybe. Time will tell.
But the "natural" hypotheses considered are increasingly insufficient.
Meteorological phenomena, electrical effects, weather balloon incidents, collective hallucinations, ramblings of village "simpletons" - none of this really holds attention anymore.
The saucers "exist"...
At least for those who now claim to have seen them. And just read the now-daily column in the press dedicated to the topic to see that they are becoming more numerous.
QUIMPER. -- Mr. Corentin Couarch, 38, residing in the village of Elliant (Finistère), a farm worker, saw in the sky at 200 meters altitude a luminous craft, the shape and size of which he could not determine.
TOULOUSE. -- In the night from Saturday to Sunday, a baker from Bompas (Pyrénées-Orientales), Mr. Sebelli, saw, parked in a street of the village, a cigar-shaped object about two meters long, surrounded by iridescent lights. Mr. Sebelli woke neighbors who witnessed the craft's quick departure.
RIOM. -- Policemen Roger Thévenin and Albert Daury, while on patrol, saw a cigar-shaped craft. Three red fireballs detached from it and briefly lit up part of the sky.
LA ROCHELLE. -- A colonial schoolteacher, on leave on Oléron Island, Mr. Martin, claims to have encountered two beautiful Martian women on the island, about 1.70 m tall, wearing boots, gloves, and leather helmets. The two Martian women took Mr. Martin's pen and drew incomprehensible signs in his notebook while trying to communicate. Mr. Martin reportedly kept this manuscript safely.
MELUN. -- Mr. Jules Lefranc, a bank employee living in Paris, saw in the sky near François de Tessan Stadium in Meaux, for about three minutes, a brightly lit object from the inside that he said resembled a small football. The craft vanished, leaving a luminous trail behind.
Residents of Trilport reportedly saw an identical stationary craft.
MELUN. -- Mr. Demarcy, a butcher in Seine-Port, and a friend, while driving in Nandy, claimed to have seen a luminous disc flying at about 300 meters altitude.
ALBI. -- A driver from Briatexte (Tarn), Mr. Jean-Pierre Mitto, a technical agent, said he encountered passengers of a flying saucer at dusk on National Road No. 631.
"Returning from Toulouse with two relatives," he said, "I suddenly saw in my headlights two little figures crossing the road, just meters from my car. I stopped immediately, and to our great astonishment, we then saw a large red disc - about six meters in diameter - take off vertically from a nearby field. The craft disappeared in a few seconds."
NANCY. -- Residents of a farm in Moncourt (Meurthe-et-Moselle) were alarmed by an unusual whistling sound outside. Through the shutters, they saw a blinding light fixed on a hillside, which disappeared soon after by rising vertically. Investigations in the indicated area uncovered intensely scorched marks on a dirt road. Samples of stones and soil were collected for expert analysis.
The Gazette de Lausanne published this "special dispatch" yesterday:
(Dpa). -- Mr. Hoge, a film operator in Muenster, Westphalia, claimed to have observed, during the night from Saturday to Sunday, for about ten minutes, a flying cigar that had landed in a field about sixty meters away. On Sunday, Mr. Hoge told a Dpa agency representative: "I was returning home after the evening's last show when, near Rinkerode in the Muenster district, I saw a bluish light in a field beside the road. I approached and saw a cigar-shaped object, surrounded by a bluish light, hovering a meter and a half above the ground. Around it were four living beings about 1.20 m tall. They wore clothes that looked like rubber, but made no noise. I watched the flying object and these beings for ten minutes, from about sixty meters away. I didn't have the courage to get closer. Suddenly, the beings, with thick bodies and oversized heads on spindly legs, climbed into their craft using a kind of ladder. The cigar tilted sideways, turned diagonally in a flash, and took off. Within a few meters, it had already taken the shape of luminous discs."
[Ref. pdn1:] NEWSPAPER "LE PATRIOTE DE NICE ET DU SUD-EST":
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Cigar, barrel, balloon
flying by day and night
Soon we won't know where to look if this keeps up. Discs, saucers, cigars, barrels, pots, balloons (!), everything is starting to fly. Pity the pilots, their job is going to get harder navigating through such a mess... if we are to believe these new "witnesses":
FROM RIOM. -- During the night, peace officers Roger Thévenin and Albert Daury of the Riom urban police, while on patrol, saw in the sky a cigar-shaped craft moving from south to north. Three red fireballs (a real fireworks show!) detached from it and lit up part of the sky for a few moments. The cigar appeared metallic, resembling duralumin.
No word on whether they managed to issue a citation for disturbing the peace.
FROM MELUN. -- Mr. Jules Lefranc, a bank employee from Paris, saw in the sky near the François-de-Tessart stadium in Meaux, for about three minutes, an object brightly lit from within which, he said, was shaped like a small football. The craft disappeared, leaving behind, according to the witness, a glowing trail the size of a stove pipe.
Residents of Trilport reportedly saw a similar stationary object.
The stadium... a ball... Come to think of it, maybe they play football on Mars too.
FROM LA ROCHELLE. -- A colonial schoolteacher currently on leave on the island of Oléron, Mr. Martin, claims to have encountered on the island two pretty Martian women about 1.70 m tall, wearing boots, gloves, and leather helmets. The two Martians grabbed Mr. Martin’s pen and drew incomprehensible symbols in his notebook while trying to communicate. Mr. Martin reportedly kept this manuscript carefully.
Lucky guy, that teacher. Instant fame. Imagine, seeing the first Martian women... and pretty ones, no less.
FROM ALBI. -- A motorist from Briatexte (Tarn), Mr. Jean-Pierre Mitto, a technical agent for a company currently exhibiting at the "Household Arts" fair in Toulouse, said he encountered passengers of a flying saucer at nightfall on National Route No. 631.
(Continued on page 6).
[Ref. lhe1:] NEWSPAPER "LE HAVRE":
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ALBI, October 12. -- A car driver from Briatexte (Tarn), M. Jean-Pierre Mitto, technical agent in a company currently exposing at the "Household Arts" of Toulouse, said he met in the dark, on the national road No. 631, the passengers of a flying saucer.
"Returning to Toulouse, with two parents, he said, I suddenly distinguished in the beam of my headlights, two little people who crossed the road, a few meters away from my car. I stopped immediately and, to our amazement, we then saw from a nearby meadow a large red disk with a diameter of 6 meters, fly away, rising vertically. The craft disappeared into the sky in a few seconds".
MULHOUSE. -- Having seen this evening a light in a pasture, two young girls of Heimersdorf, Anny and Roselyne Pracht aged 22 and 18, came closer thinking it was a fire lit by a shepherd. Then they saw, they claim, a craft of a height of about 2 meters. At their approach, the barrel-shaped craft turned to a glowing red, rose into the air and disappeared over the horizon. The same phenomenon was observed by two other people.
MELUN. -- Mr. Jules Lefranc, bank employee, Paris resident, saw in the sky, near the François - de - Tessart stadium in Meaux, for about three minutes, an object brightly lit from the inside that, he said, was shaped like a small soccer ball. This craft disappeared while leaving behind, the witness said, a luminous trail of the size of a stovepipe.
Residents of Trilport reportedly saw an identical craft motionless.
MELUN. -- A resident of Fontainebleau stated he saw
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[Ref. jve5:] JACQUES VALLEE:
| 273 | -002.94930 | 48.66000 | 09 | 10 | 1954 | TRILPORT | F | 301 | A |
[Ref. uda1] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:
The website indicates that on 9 October 1954 in Trilport, France, "An unidentified object was sighted, that had an unusual appearance or performance. One cigar-shaped object, about 1 foot across, was observed by several witnesses."
The sources are indicated as Vallee, Jacques, Computerized Catalog (N = 3073); Vallee, Jacques, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, Henry Regnery, Chicago, 1966; Vallee, Jacques, Preliminary Catalog (N = 500), (in JVallee01).
[Ref. ubk1:] "UFO-DATENBANK":
This database recorded this three times:
| Case Nr. | New case Nr. | Investigator | Date of observation | Zip | Place of observation | Country of observation | Hour of observation | Classification | Comments | Identification |
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| 19541009 | 09.10.1954 | Trilport | France | |||||||
| 19541009 | 09.10.1954 | Trilport | France | NL | ||||||
| 19541009 | 09.10.1954 | Trilport | France | NL |
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Obvious description of a meteor.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Trilport, Seine-et-Marne, craft, motionless
[----] indicates sources that are not yet available to me.
| Version: | Created/Changed by: | Date: | Change Description: |
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| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | June 28, 2010 | First published, [jve5], [uda1]. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | September 21, 2014 | Addition [lhe1]. Explanations changed from "Not looked for yet" to "Obvious description of a meteor" thanks to he information found on September 21, 2014, in [lhe1]. |
| 1.2 | Patrick Gross | February 20, 2017 | Addition [ubk1]. |
| 1.3 | Patrick Gross | February 22, 2020 | Additions [nnm1], Summary. |
| 1.4 | Patrick Gross | May 5, 2025 | Addition [pdn1]. |
| 1.5 | Patrick Gross | June 4, 2025 | Addition [cot1]. |
