Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects

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At about 2330 hours on 11 October 1953, many residents of Djogou in northwest Dahomey observed in the sky an oblong-shaped, luminous object flying at a high speed toward the north, at an altitude of about 1,500 meters and on a horizontal plane. This is the first reported sighting of a so-called flying saucer over Dahomey.

## FRANCE

## CELESTIAL DISK CHANGES FORM -- Bordeaux, Sud-Ouest, 12 Dec 53

At about 1545 hours on 9 December, Charles Huaut, a carpenter from Saint-Emilion, Gironde Department; observed a luminous, golden, round object poised motionless at a high altitude. After 10 minutes, it changed position noiselessly and assumed the form of several horseshoes, measuring about 100 meters in diameter, enveloped in smoke trails. Then the entire phenomenon disappeared. Several other persons reported having seen it at the time indicated above.

At approximately the same time as Huaut made his observation, a man named Simonneau and his wife, from Surgeres, Charente-Maritime Department, saw a round object in the sky. It glowed with the colors of the rainbow and flew at great speed from north to south.

BRILLIANT WHITE DISK SIGHTED == Nice, Nice-Matin, 12 Dec 53

Recently, Madet, a civil servant of Montlucon, Allier Department, sighted a brilliantly luminous white disk in the sky at approximately 2100 hours. It was visible for 2 minutes, then traveled off at a great speed and disappeared, without seeming to change its altitude, in the direction of the Auvergne Mountains. A short while later, Madet saw a red, crescent-shaped object which appeared to be three times as large as the moon in its first quarter. The object disappeared at a very great speed toward the southwest.

## UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT AT MARIGNANE AIRFIELD -- Nice, Nice-Matin, 9 Jan 54

Shortly after 2100 hours on 4 January, a round, luminous machine, coming from the south, landed at the Marignane airfield in Bouches-du-Rhone Department. There was only one witness present at the field. The machine disappeared while he was telephoning the control tower. Careful scrutiny of the runway in the morning turned up a few pieces of metallic debris. The witness' story was confirmed by that of a Marseilles resident who, driving from Arles to Marseilles saw a large, round, reddish, fiery ball in the sky, but placed the time at 2245 hours.

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