Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects

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On the morning of 8 January, the residents of the small hamlet of Monthaleix, in the commune of Chambon-sur-Lac, Department of Puy-de-Dome, were awakened by the sound of an airplane motor. The noise lasted from 0530 to 0730 hours. A large greenish flash was seen and the noise stopped. The Aix-en-Provence ground station had received no distress calls from aircraft.

EXPLOSION IN SKY BREAKS WINDOWS AT DIEPPE -- Stockholm, Dagens Nyheter, 8 Jan 54

Paris (TT-AFP) -- Inhabitants of Dieppe were awakened early on the morning of 7 January by a loud crash, accompanied by a dazzling light in the sky. The explosion was so powerful that doors were thrown ajar and many window panes were broken.

Up to now, no explanation for the phenomenon has been found. A railwayman in Orchies, near the Belgian frontier, claims that at about the same time as the explosion he saw a luminous flying saucer cross the sky at a very great speed,

## SWEDEN, DENMARK

SWEDISH METEOR EXPERT REPORTS TO SWEDISH DEFENSE STAFF -- Stockholm, Dagens Nyheter, 27 Jan 54

Meteor expert Bertil Lindblad of the Lund Observatory has submitted a reassuring report to the Swedish Defense Staff, regarding the flying saucer which a Transair Airlines pilot, Capt Ulf Christiernsson, reported he saw on 17 December over Hässleholm and the large meteor sighted over southern Sweden, Bornholm, and Denmark on 9 January. [For information on the meteor, see last story in this section.] In this report, Lindblad, who holds that the Hässleholm flying saucer may well have been a meteor, "gave the scientific explanation, from a military point of view, of the suspicious fact that most of the balls of fire fly in from the east."

UNUSUALLY LARGE METEOR SIGHTED OVER LARGE FORTIONS OF DENMARK -- Stockholm, Svenska Dagbladet, 6 Dec 53

Copenhagen, 5 December -- An unusually large meteor was observed today over large portions of Denmark at 1650 hours. The first reports came from north Jutland where the meteor was seen moving in a southwesterly direction at a very high altitude. It had a brilliant cigar-shaped nucleus and a long lasing trail. The sighting of a meteor at the same time as the sighting in Jutland was reported from Halsingborg, Sweden, from Bornholm, and from the area around the Danish-German frontier.