09-30-1954
#166 - Sept. 30, 1954, Brest (France). At sea between
Brest and Roven (sic) , the crew
of the tanker Port Lyautey
observed an object touch
the surface of the sea, then take off vertically and give off a red
flame before being lost to view.
This reference: Passport
to Magonia by Jacques Vallee, p. 213, #166, published
1969
Original source: Le Figaro,
Oct. 2, 1954; La Croix, France-Soir, Oct. 3, 1954; AFP, Sept. 30, 1954.
UFOCAT PRN – 21983 [DOS:
09-30-1954]
UFOCAT URN – 021984 Preliminary
Catalog (N=500) by Jacques Vallee, #168, © 1966
UFOCAT URN – 179783 Challenge to Science by Jacques
Vallee, p. 213-168, © 1966
UFOCAT
URN – 021985 A Century of Landings (N=923) by J. Vallee, # 166, © 1969
UFOCAT URN – 104985 World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports,
#0340 by Peter Rogerson,
no
© date
UFOCAT URN – 021983 Computerized Catalog (N=3076), #1215
by Jacques Vallee, no © date
UFOCAT PRN – 21985 [DOS:
09-30-1954]
UFOCAT URN – 021986 The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition,
No. 1, p. 11, © 1966
UFOCAT URN – 022013 Computerized Catalog (N=3173), #2419
by L. Schoenherr, no © date
UFOCAT URN – 171841 *U* UFO Computer Database by Larry
Hatch, # 03674, © 2002
UFOCAT PRN – 21983 [DOS:
10-02-1954]
UFOCAT URN – 076511 GEPA – Phénomènes
Spatiaux, September 1968
UFOCAT URN – 054709 Etudes
Statistiques Portant sur 1000 Témoignages, Claude Poher, #0345,
undated
Europe – France, Finistere.
Brest Latitude
48-24 N, Longitude 4-29 W (D-M)
Roven – There is no “Roven” in the gazetteers but a Google search turned up a
hotel in Roven, which is in the city of Rouen,
which is to the east of Brest.-CF-
Rouen Latitude 49.26 N, Longitude 1.05
E
Reference: France Gazetteer, published in the Office of
Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., September 1964
UFO location (UFOCAT). Note several given:
Latitude
48.39 N, Longitude 4.46 W (D.%) [URNs 21983, 21984, 179783, 21985, 104985]
Latitude
49.00 N, Longitude 3.00 W [URN
171841]
Latitude
49.419 N, Longitude 1.077 E [URN 054709]
Latitude
49.44 N, Longitude 1.10 E [URN
076511]
|