Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects

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USIDENTIFIED OBJECT OVER LYON -- Dakar, Paris-Dakar, 2 Sep 5h

At 2015 hours on 31 August 1954, Henri Tardy is reported to have seen a flying object, in the shape of a short, fat cigar flying from east to west over Lyon. The object was bluish-green in color and emitted sparks from its tail. It disappeared in a few seconds toward the radio beacon on Mount Verdun.

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT OVER FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA -- Lisbon, Diario da Manka, 21 Jul 54

Brazzaville, 19 July (AMI) -- Monsignor Verhille, Apostolic Vicar of Fort Rousset, reported in the Brazzaville newspaper La Sainte de l'ARF that he and others had sighted an unidentified flying object over Laketi in the Likuala-Mossaka region of the Middle Congo on 18 June 1954 at 1935 hours. A luminous globe, it came from the North toward the Laketi Mission. It suddenly stopped, rose and dropped, stopped again, gyrated, and seemed to shake. A noise like that of an airplane engine, heard until that moment, also stopped. Seen through binoculars, the object had a dark mass in the center with light rays of unequal length coming out of it alternately. It vent through its rising, falling, and stabilizing movements for 15 minutes, then shot back over the northern horizon.

UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS OVER SOUTHERN RHODESIA -- Leopoldville, Le Courrier d'Afrique, 25 Jul 54

J. H. Flanagan (a policeman) and some friends recently observed six unidentified objects in the sky over Enkeldoorn, south of Galisbury. The objects, which were almost immobile, were visible for about 20 minutes but disappeared when night fell.