

And Figuet indicated to have learned this by a communication from Dominique Caudron. In his "Francat" listing of 1985, obviously lesser known than the 1979 book, Michel Figuet gave the explanation: it was a misinterpretation caused by the Moon. Charles Garreau on his side used the idea of the Australian pilot, UFO witness, and ufologist Bruce Cathie, who thought he found out that UFO sightings occur on a grid-shaped network, made of squares of 33 nautical miles (61.1 km) of side (see his 1971 book "Harmonic 695"): Garreau assures that this case is on this grid he renamed "Harmonic 33" which he believes to be made of squares of 43.2 km per side. Fumoux, a theory claiming that UFO observations are mapped on isosceles triangles such as chance cannot account for it. In 1981, Jean-François Gille lists the case in the context of a study on "Isocelia" alleged by J. The authors introduce a misprint: "Beautort-la-Fère" becomes "Beaufort-la-Fère" This version will be copied as is in 1979 by Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon in their voluminous "Dossier des Rencontres Rapprochées en France". Desprez would have told this the next morning to his former colleagues from the La Fère gendarmerie brigade, but "no trace was found on the spot." This ball was about 4 meters in diameter. When I return to the wood, I see the ball rise and disappear in the direction of Beautort-la-Fère. But after crossing the junction, I see it land at the edge of a wood, at a place called La Faye-de-Servais, about 200 meters from the roadway. "As I advanced, the ball seemed to recede. These authors reported his words as follows: Gaston Desprez, retired adjutant of gendarmerie, was driving by car on the National Road 7, coming from Chauny, and arriving at level of Amigny, where a calvary stands, he saw a very large ball of fire, which seemed to hover above the village. In their 1975 book, "Face aux Extra-terrestres", ufologists Charles Garreau and Raymond Lavier were more talkative, reporting that on October 17, 1954, around 10:30 p.m., in Amigny-Rouy in the Aisne department, according to the report of the gendarmerie and their personal files, Mr. In the ufology literature, the case first appears with ufologist Jacques Vallée in 1966 in his computer listing, but the place is written "Armigny" instead of Amigny-Rouy, and the only information given were the date and time. Déspres, chief warrant officer of gendarmerie in retirement in the hamlet of La Grande in Saint-Gobain, was returning from Chauny by car accompanied by his wife when, at the level of the village of Amigny-Rouy, he saw a large ball of fire which seemed to him to land at the edge of the wood at a place called "Fay-de-Servais", about 200 meters from the road. Summary:īy ufologists Thibaut Alexandre or Eric Maillot, in 2015, we learned that the primary media source of this case was the local newspaper La Dépêche de l'Aisne for October 21, 1954, reporting that Mr.
Please cite this reference in any correspondence with me regarding this case. Reference for this case: 17-Oct-54-Amigny-Rouy.

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