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October 27, 1954, Moussey, Vosges:
Reference for this case: 27-Oct-54-Moussey.
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The regional newspaper L'Est Républicain for October 29, 1954, reported, via their correspondent, on page 7, the case of Moussey in the Vosges of October 27, 1954.
The newspaper stated that on the morning of October 28, 1954, the young Cuvelier boy, aged 13, accompanied by his school director, had told at the gendarmerie that he saw, the day before, around 8 p.m., a craft of the flying saucer type.
Getting out of his house to bring in his barking dog, he had seen in a meadow 25 meters from him, a round and flattened craft. He was surprized, lay down in the grass, hearing like a big clock sound coming from inside the craft. Then, scared, he ran home, alerted his mother and begged her to believe him and come outside to see the craft.
Yielding, his mother came out and saw a red glow at the location that her son showed. Worried, Mrs. Cuvelier went to alert neighbors, but "when back, the machine was gone."
On the spot, traces were found: three prints like round feet the size of a big egg had remained marked, equidistant from each other. The grass beneath the place where the craft had been posed was stained with black smoke. No living being had been seen in the craft.
The national newspaper France-Soir took up history, and in the 1960s short summaries were published by Jacques Vallée. Vallée told France-Soir of October 30, 1954, was his source and incorrectly presented the case by saying that the school director had seen the UFO. He also presented the round traces placed in equilateral triangle like "triangular traces". He omitted the sound, gave a size of 4 to 5 meters to the craft. These errors were repeated by others later, such as Charles Garreau, Michel Figuet, Peter Rogerson.
One version of the Vallée catalog showed a sketch by Fernand Lagarde; which was said to have been made from a photograph of the place and one or more sketches by the witness, and indicated that there had been an investigation by F. Douard.
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In 1969-1970, the ufology group "Lumières Dans La Nuit" undertook to verify the French cases from 1954 presented in the catalog of Jacques Vallée. For the present case, it was their investigator F. Douard, from Cherbourg, who set to work; he wrote a report which, like the others, remained in the magazine's archives until the 2020s...
This report indicates that it was the dog that Mr. Guy Cuvelier had taken out which, by escaping, led him to the location where the object had landed.
The object was about 3 m in diameter and 1.60 m to 1.70 m high. It was not black, but a fairly light metallic gray; there were no portholes, no openings of any kind, nor any lights.
As there was tall grass, it seemed to him that the object was resting directly on the ground. The grass could very well have concealed the three legs that would have left marks.
The noise the witness had heard was not the ticking reported by his mother, but a "crumpling paper" sound.
The witness himself had not seen the triangular traces; they were recorded the next day by the school headmaster. The witness had heard about traces of black powder resembling soot, but he can neither confirm nor deny this.
At the time, the witness did not want his name to be published, fearing it might harm his career as a civil servant.
He reported to F. Douard that in Belleval, on the same day at the same time, people in the village had seen an inexplicable glow.
F. Douard specified that Moussey is located about 5 kilometers northwest of Senones on the road leading from La Petite-Raon to the Col de Prayé and the Donon, and that it is the last village before these passes. He added that there are no military installations nearby, and that the houses of Moussey stretch lengthwise along the road, in a narrow and fairly enclosed valley, following the course of the Rabodeau.
The witness lived at the time somewhat outside the built-up area on the left bank of the Rabodeau, his house being part of a group of four or five houses a few hundred meters from the main part of the village.
F. Douard recorded the statement of Mrs. Cuvelier, widow of an officer, mother of the witness:
"It must have been around 9:00 p.m., at the end of October 1954. I have forgotten the exact date."
"After chatting with my son Guy, then aged 13, I went to get ready for the night."
"Guy, as he often did at the time, took his dog TONY, a small mongrel, out."
"The night was dark; there was no moonlight, but it was not raining. It was cool and there was no wind."
"Upon leaving the house, my son and his dog took the road leading to the village. At the junction of this road and the path that climbs the embankment overlooking it, the dog suddenly stopped, barking and taking the classic posture of a frightened dog, braced, hair standing on end, and refusing to move forward."
"As he approached a few steps, Guy saw an object about 3 m in diameter resting on the small field at the top of the embankment overlooking the road. It was not very tall. It had the shape of a flared cone."
"The object was motionless and dark and produced no light. Guy did not see any occupants, but he noticed coming from the object a regular ticking, comparable to that of a clock or a large alarm clock."
"People were beginning to talk about flying saucers at the time, and my son, so as not to be seen by what he thought must be one, lay flat on his stomach and crawled to within about 3 m of the object. As nothing happened, he returned home where, very excited, he told me what he had just seen and urged me to come with him there. I readily admit that I was then convinced he was playing a joke on me and I laughed at him. Still excited, he insisted that he was not lying and that he had indeed seen with his own eyes a flying saucer on the ground."
"Still skeptical, I refused to go out into the cold night to indulge in what I was convinced was a prank."
"After half an hour of discussion, Guy went back out alone and returned to the observation site. There was nothing there anymore; the object had gone."
"Upon his return, we remained talking for quite a while, and he told me of his intention to report it the next day to his schoolteacher, Mr. Maugenre, and to the gendarmerie."
"I then warned him about the serious consequences that could arise for us if his story were made up. I even told him that the gendarmes would put him in prison if they saw that he had lied, and that I myself would have to face a trial that would cost me dearly. I thought that in this way I would lead him to admit that he had been joking. But he would not back down."
"The next day he informed both Mr. Maugenre and the gendarmerie."
"I went myself to see the place where the object had landed: I saw the triangular marks it had left and I observed that, over the area corresponding roughly to what Guy said was the circumference of the saucer, the grass was neither burned nor even scorched; on the other hand, it left on the hands a fine black powder, like soot, but not greasy."
"Shortly afterward we received visits from the gendarmerie, from investigators whom I believe were police coming from St. Dié, Épinal, and Nancy. It even seems to me that the Prefect himself came."
"For nearly 8 days it was an almost uninterrupted procession."
"Then everything returned to normal, and I am surprized that 15 years later this matter is coming back to the surface."
"But I still sometimes talk about it with my son. And quite recently I again asked him whether, after all this time, he could not admit that he had fabricated this story himself. Once again he assured me that this was not the case, and I am quite certain that my son, who is now 27 years old, did indeed see what he described, on that night at the end of October 1954."
F. Douard noted the statement of Mr. Maugenre:
"This matter remains present in my mind. Guy Cuvelier was a cheerful and lively child, but perfectly well-balanced, and I never detected in him the slightest tendency to make things up. I myself saw the three holes in a triangle left by the object. They were clearly marked, not very deep, the ground being dry at the time. What I can state with certainty is that Guy, at his age, could never have drawn with such precision the perfect equilateral triangle that these holes formed."
In the 1980s, a report was published in the regional catalog by the CNEGU, adding that an investigation in 1984 found Ms. Cuvillier, who unfortunately, following the recent death of her son, did not want to tell anything else than "My son was not crazy, he did see it, anyway I too saw something".
CNEGU also noted that a search by the Gendarmerie of Moussey did not find the report of the gendarmes of the time, that this case is perhaps the most serious landing case of the Vosges, and that Gilles Munsch and F. Diollez are conducting a counter-investigation.
[Ref. ler1:] NEWSPAPER "L'EST REPUBLICAIN":
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MOUSSEY (from our correspondent). -- Yesterday morning, in Moussey (the Vosges) the young Cuvelier, aged 13, in company oh his school headmaster, came to declare at the gendarmerie he had seen, the previous evening, at approximately 11 p.m., a craft of the flying saucer type.
Coming out of his house to make his barking dog come inside, he saw in a meadow, 25 meters from there, a craft of round and flattened shape. Surprised, he lies in the grass and states to have heard, inside the craft, like the regular noise of a big clockwork. Then, frightened, he runs back home, alerts his mummy whom he begged to believe him and come to see for herself.
Agreeing, the mother comes outside and saw a red gleam at the place that the child showed to her. Getting worried, Mrs. Cuvelier went to alert neighborhood people but coming back the craft was gone.
On the premises, traces were noted: three prints like round feet of the size of a big egg, remained visible and at an equal distance one from another. The grass that was under the craft was soiled of black soot. No living being was seen in the craft.
[Ref. csl1:] NEWSPAPER "LE COURRIER DE SAONE-ET-LOIRE":
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DURING A MATCH, 15,000 FLORENTINES WATCH THE MANEUVERS OF A "SQUADRON OF SAUCERS"
FLORENCE. -- A squadron of flying saucers appeared, interrupting a football match for half an hour. If it was a collective hallucination, it was a significant one, as 15,000 spectators went home convinced of the existence of the mysterious craft.
According to witnesses, the objects were shiny and flew at fairly high altitude. They left behind a kind of spider web trail, parts of which fell to the ground and were collected by passersby.
Some experts believe the substance could indeed be spider web, as it apparently sometimes gets carried by the wind to great altitudes.
The mysterious substance was analyzed by Professor Giovanni Canneri, director of the Chemistry Institute at the University of Milan.
In his report, the professor noted that the substance had a fibrous structure with considerable resistance to tension and torsion.
When heated, the substance turned brown and left behind transparent ash. After analysis, Professor Canneri stated that it contained mostly boron, silicon, calcium, and magnesium, which relates it to borosilicate.
This is quite different from substances collected under similar circumstances in Oloron, Gaillac, and more recently in the Isère.
There, the materials appeared similar but dissolved and disappeared very quickly without leaving a trace.
Two workers from Mitry-le-Neuf, Mr. Christian Porcher and Mr. Jacques Trow, decided to claim they had seen a flying saucer on October 25 near Villepinte to get attention. They even said that the pilot invited them to touch the craft and signaled that he would return.
Unfortunately for these clever "witnesses", the police commissioner of Villeparisis, to whom they wrote to report their sighting, was sharp-eyed. When summoned by the police to explain themselves yesterday morning, they admitted they had made everything up. They will be prosecuted for contempt of a magistrate.
EPINAL. -- For the second time in eight days, a mysterious craft was seen in the Vosges. This time, the witness was young Guy Cuvillier from Moussey, near Saint-Dié. On Wednesday evening, he was walking his dog near his home. Suddenly, the dog barked furiously and ran toward a nearby field. The boy followed. A few dozen meters away, the dog had stopped in front of a circular craft resting on the grass. It emitted no sound or light.
The child later gave a fairly detailed description of the craft, saying it was 1.6 meters high and had a diameter of 4 to 5 meters.
At the time, he quickly ran to alert his mother, who was initially skeptical but eventually took him seriously. As they both walked toward the field, a reddish light suddenly rose vertically. Frightened, the mother and child fled and later reported their strange encounter to the police.
CLERMONT-FERRAND. -- Mr. Jean Lasse, from Vichy, went to the local police station and gave the following account:
- I was returning from Clermont-Ferrand on my scooter when the engine began to sputter inexplicably. I downshifted, thinking it was a carburetion issue. But the engine stopped completely. At that moment, a yellow glow emerged from the nearby forest, followed by red lights, and an ovoid craft rose silently, leaving behind three beams. Then it all vanished. Without any action on my part, my engine restarted.
The young man, who is well-balanced, insists he was not hallucinating. However, there remains the question of how his engine started again without his intervention.
[Ref. fso1:] NEWSPAPER "FRANCE-SOIR":
MOUSSEY (from our correspondent). -- Yesterday morning, in Moussey (the Vosges), the young Cuvillier, 13 years old, accompanied by his headmaster, came to state to the gendarmerie that he had seen, the day before, around 20 hours, a machine of the flying saucer kind.
Coming out of his house to make his barking puppy come in, he saw in the meadow, within 25 meters from there, a machine of round and flattened form. Surprised, he lay down in the grass and states to have heard, in the apparatus, like a regular noise of large clock. Then, frightened, he returned home running from there, alerts his mom whom he begged to believe him and to come to see. Agreeing, the mom came out and saw a red gleam at the site the child showed her. Worried, Mrs. Cuvillier went to warn neighbors, but upon returning, the machine had disappeared.
On the spot, traces were found: three prints like round feet of the size of a large egg, had remained marked and at equal distance with each other. The grass which was under the apparatus was soiled with a black smoke. No living being was seen in the machine.
[Ref. fso2:] NEWSPAPER "FRANCE SOIR":
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BERNAY, October 29 ("France-Soir" dispatch).
A sign of modern times: today, cows watch flying saucers go by. This just happened in a small village near Bernay, Les Jonquerets-de-Livet, where a farmer, Mr. Gilbert Hée, witnessed this unusual spectacle two days ago.
"I was gathering pears," he said, "around 7:30 p.m. Suddenly, I saw two lights in the pasture: one red and one green at each end of an elongated object. I thought it couldn't be a car since the object was hovering above the fences. I didn't dare approach, but I saw the cows forming a circle around it. After about a minute, everything went dark and I went home. But then, at 11 p.m., young Chéradame, 18, and René Marais arrived. René had just fallen off his motorcycle. He was riding along the road when suddenly his bike was blocked completely. He flew over the handlebars and landed in the ditch. 'There are Martians in the area!' he shouted."
"We lit a blowtorch and I saw a dazzling light coming from a craft shaped just like the one I had seen earlier. It was the same one, only slightly moved. René and young Chéradame approached and saw two small men, about one meter tall, walking stiffly and dressed in suits that shone like armor. They disappeared suddenly. The craft lifted off silently and flew away over the forest."
"Two weeks ago, my eldest son already saw a dazzling saucer in the sky above our house."
After this discovery, Mr. Hée went to count his livestock. With Martians, you never know! Not a single one was missing. Naturally, the story is making waves in the region, where people are particularly interested in the saucers' movements.
At Noyer-en-Ouche, a few kilometers away, a similar experience happened to a local girl, Miss Ginette Coqueret, 17. She was returning from Bernay, where she works for her family in Noyer. She arrived in the village at night, on her bicycle. Immediately, she was surrounded:
"So," they asked her, "weren't you afraid?"
"Afraid of what?" she replied.
"Of the flying saucers, of course! And the Martians!"
Truth be told, Miss Coqueret had never heard of Martians before and struggled to grasp the danger she had narrowly avoided, alone in the night, easy prey for saucer pilots. That was, of course, in the imagination of her fellow villagers.
There was more commotion in the region last week when a stranger pitched his tent at the foot of an old tower, the Tower of Thevray, near Beaumesnil. The man didn't hide his motive: he had come from Rambouillet in search of saucers. The area around the old tower seemed to him very suitable for landings. He decided to wait for them there. Unfortunately, his watch was in vain. He is very disappointed. It really is difficult to decipher the strategy of flying saucers.
* A NEW FLYING SAUCER reportedly landed Wednesday evening, around 8:30 p.m., in Moussey, at the northeastern tip of the Vosges department. The craft was seen from afar by a young schoolboy, then by his headmaster. Clear traces were found in the ground. They form a triangular shape.
LILLE, October 28 ("France-Soir" dispatch). -- For the second time, Mr. Marius Dewilde saw a flying saucer and its passengers. The resident of Quarouble, near Valenciennes, who had once encountered two Martians coming out of their landed craft on the railway tracks, saw a saucer again - this time in broad daylight.
It landed on the railway line near his home. The little men who emerged spoke to him in an unknown language before reboarding. The craft disappeared without noise or smoke.
The railroad ties were examined and the same marks as before were found - slightly wider this time and perfectly symmetrical. The grass was flattened where the landing supposedly occurred.
[Ref. lcx1:] NEWSPAPER "LA CROIX":
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In Moussey, near Saint-Rémy (Vosges), a young man, Guy Ouvilliers, 13, saw in a meadow a circular craft, with a diameter of 4 meters, about 1.65 m high.
The young boy said he approached about ten meters from the craft and was able to observe it for a minute. Then he went to tell his mother. The latter, arrived at the edge of the meadow with her son, saw a reddish glow. Panicked, mother and child fled and barricaded themselves until dawn in their house.
A large, luminous flying disc was sighted over Rhodes. After circling for five minutes hovering around the "Voice of America" radio station, the disc disappeared at high speed in a westerly direction.
[Ref. jve4:] JACQUES VALLEE:
We will report here on two clusters of special interest: the Mezieres cluster and the Saint Quirin cluster. * Of the three observations near Mezieres, none has ever been reported in a national newspaper or a specialized publication. Two come from obscure local papers; the third one is a police report. They were unknown to Michel and Carrouges when they wrote their books. They have received no publicity. The sightings took place on October 4, 16, and 27 - roughly twelve days apart. The first case was reported by a child who said he saw an object "shaped like a tent" and an unknown individual near it. In the second case, a woman fainted as she saw an object land within thirty meters of her. In the third case, policemen in the immediate vicinity of the two other sightings saw a flying object that took off at dawn.
The same pattern is observed in the dense woods of Alsace, near Saint Quirin, Schirmeck, and Moussey: six days after the observation by a Mr. Schoubrenner (who was driving in the area when he saw a luminous object on the highway, felt a sensation of heat, and was overcome by a sort or paralysis when his car stalled about twenty yards away from the object) a tractor was stopped in the same manner as an object flew over it at low altitude. The next day a boy and a school director saw a "craft" on the ground; it left marks forming a triangle.
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* A special investigation of this point is in progress within the framework of a complete study of the distribution of the landing sites over the French territory.
[Ref. jve1:] JACQUES VALLEE:
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318
Oct. 27, 1954, 08:30 P.M., Moussey (France).
An object was seen on the ground by a schoolboy and his school director. Triangular traces were reported. (53).
[Ref. fdd1:] F. DOUARD - LDLN:
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CAT No 318 Cat J VALLEE.
Investigator: Mr. F DOUARD CHERBOURG.
REPORT ON THE CUVELIER CASE
It was the dog he had taken out, which, escaping, led him to the spot where the object had landed.
The object was about 3 m in diameter and 1.60 to 1.70 m high.
It was not black, but a fairly light metallic gray. No portholes, nor any kind of opening. No lights.
The noise he heard was not the ticking reported by his mother, but more exactly, a "crumpled paper" sound.
He himself did not see the triangular traces recorded the next day by the school principal. Therefore, he cannot say anything about them.
He heard about traces of black powder resembling soot, but he can neither confirm nor deny.
He gave me the sketch, which you will find included, and which I have redrawn neatly.
As there was tall grass, it seemed to him that the object rested directly on the ground. The grass could easily have hidden the three legs that would have left marks. Otherwise, there is no change from what his mother said.
Photo No. 1 was taken at the foot of the path leading up to the embankment where the saucer was located. You can see on the left wooden posts marking the location of the house where Mr. CUVELIER lived.
Photo No. 2 shows the beginning of this path; you can judge that the distance separating the house from the UFO was fairly short.
Photo No. 3 shows the path at the top of which the child fell to his knees in surprise: he was not 8 m from the object.
Photo No. 4: another view of the path.
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Photos 5 and 6 should be placed side by side, using the markers I drew in ink on each of them.
Mr. Guy CUVELIER does not want his name to be published: he fears it could harm his career as a civil servant.
He informed me that in BELLEVAL, on the same day at the same time, people from the village had seen an inexplicable glow.
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C.318 VALLEE Continued.
MOUSSEY is located about 5 km northwest of SENONES, on the road leading from PETITE-RAON to the PRAYE Pass and the DONON.
It is the last village before these passes. No military installation nearby.
Its houses stretch in a line along the road, in a narrow and fairly steep valley, following the course of the RABODEAU.
At the time, the witness lived a little outside the town, on the left bank of the RABODEAU. Her house was part of a group of 4 or 5 houses a few hundred meters from the main part of the village.
Statement of Mrs. CUVELLIER, mother of Guy (the witness). Mrs. CUVELLIER is a widow of an officer.
"It must have been around 9:00 p.m., at the end of October 1954. I have forgotten the exact date.
After chatting with my son Guy, then 13 years old, I went to get ready for bed.
As he often did at the time, Guy took out his dog TONY, a small mutt.
The night was dark, there was no moonlight, but it was not raining. It was cool, and there was no wind.
As he left the house, my son and his dog took the road leading to the village. At the junction of this road and the path that climbs to the embankment overlooking it, the dog suddenly stopped, barking and taking the classic stance of a frightened dog - braced, hair standing on end, and refusing to move forward.
Taking a few steps closer, Guy saw an object about 3 m in diameter resting in the small field at the top of the embankment overlooking the road. It was not very tall. It had the shape of a flared cone.
The object was motionless and dark, producing no light. Guy saw no occupants, but he did notice a regular ticking sound coming from the object, comparable to that of a clock or a large alarm clock.
People had just begun talking about flying saucers at that time, and my son, not wanting to be seen by what he thought surely was one, lay flat on the ground and crawled to within about 3 m of the object. As nothing happened, he returned to the house where, all excited, he told me what he had just seen, surprising me by insisting I come with him back there. I admit that I was convinced he was playing a prank on me and I mocked him. Still excited, he assured me he was not lying and that he had truly seen with his own eyes a flying saucer landed on the ground.
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Still skeptical, I refused to go out into the cold night to take part in what I was convinced was a prank.
After half an hour of discussion, Guy went back out alone and returned to the place of the sighting. There was nothing left; the object had gone.
When he came back, we stayed talking for quite a while, and he told me of his intention to speak about it the next day to his schoolteacher, Mr. MAUGENDRE, and to the Gendarmerie.
I then warned him of the serious consequences that could result for us if his story was made up. I even told him that the gendarmes would put him in prison if they saw he had lied, and that I myself would have to endure a trial that would cost me dearly. I thought this would make him admit that he had tried to play a joke. But he would not give in.
The next day he informed both Mr. MAUGENDRE and the gendarmerie.
I went myself to see the spot where the object had landed: I saw the triangular marks it had left, and I noticed that on the surface corresponding roughly to what Guy said was the circumference of the saucer, the grass was neither burned nor even scorched, but it left on the hands a fine black powder, like soot, but not greasy.
Soon after, we were visited by the gendarmerie, by investigators whom I suppose were police from St. DIE, EPINAL, and NANCY. It even seemed to me that the Prefect himself came.
For nearly 8 days, it was an almost unbroken parade.
Then everything returned to normal, and I am surprized that 15 years later this case has resurfaced.
But I do sometimes talk about it with my son. And, quite recently, I again asked him if, after so long, he could not admit that he had invented the whole story himself. He once again assured me that this was not the case, and I am absolutely certain that my son, who is now 27, truly saw what he described on that night at the end of October 1954."
STATEMENT OF MR. MAUGENDRE
"This case remains clear in my mind. G. CUVELIER was a cheerful, laughing child, but perfectly well-balanced, and I never detected in him the slightest tendency toward fabrication. I myself saw the three holes in a triangle left by the object. They were well-marked, shallow, the soil being dry at the time. What I can affirm with complete certainty is that Guy, at his age, could never have drawn with such precision the perfect equilateral triangle that those holes formed."
[Ref. jve2:] JACQUES VALLEE:
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318) October 27, 1954, 20: 30. Moussey (France):
An object was seen on the ground by a schoolboy and his school director. Triangular traces were reported. (P. 53.)
[Image caption:] Nr 318 -- (sketch by F. LAGARDE from photo of the place and sketch by the witness -- investigation by F. DROUARD).
[Ref. jve3:] JACQUES VALLEE:
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October 27, 1954, 08:30 p.m., Moussey (France):
An object was seen on the ground by a schoolboy and his school director. Triangular traces noted. (France-Soir, October 30, 1954).
[Ref. tps1:] TED PHILLIPS:
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Oct 27, 1954
089 2030
FRANCE; Moussey. Object seen on the ground by a schoolboy and his school director. Triangular traces were reported. (Vallee III)
[Ref. gal1:] CHARLES GARREAU AND RAYMOND LAVIER:
The two authors indicate that in Moussey in the Vosges, on October 27, 1954, at 08:30 p.m., according to the Vallée catalogue, an object was seen on the ground by a schoolboy and his principal, and triangular traces were found.
[Ref. ldl1:] UFOLOGY MAGAZINE "LUMIERES DANS LA NUIT":
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above the case 318 of the vallée catalogue (moussey).
[Ref. prn1:] PETER ROGERSON - "INTCAT":
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497 27 October 1954 2030 hrs
MOUSSEY (FRANCE) An object vas seen on the ground by a schoolboy and his school director. Triangular traces were reported. (M318; France-Soir, 30 Oct 54)
[Ref. fru1:] MICHEL FIGUET AND JEAN-LOUIS RUCHON:
The two authors indicate that in Moussey in the Vosges, on October 27, 1954 at 08:30 p.m., a young boy, Guy Cuvillier, aged 13, left his parents home to walk his dog.
He was hardly outside when the dog leapt towards the meadow while barking furiously. The small boy follows it and then made a discovery which left him awestruck:
A strange apparatus of circular shape is posed in the meadow.
During one minute, the young witness observed this mysterious apparatus of which he later gave the following description to the gendarmes of Moussey: a dark object of circular shape of 4 to 5 meters in diameter posed in a meadow.
He goes back at his home to warn his mother. After having initially refused to take it seriously, she finally agreed to follow him. Whereas they arrive in the meadow, a reddish gleam suddenly rose. Seized by panic, the mother fled and her child hastens to imitate her.
Both then alerted neighbors and the gendarmerie of Moussey is then also alerted. An investigation was opened. Triangular traces were found.
[Ref. cme1:] CLAUDE MAUGE:
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Moussey 10/27/54: I: F. p. 197
The source is said to be the UFOCAT catalog; the "F." source is said to be Michel Figuet's book.
The "I" is said to mean: "'inconclusive' case: lack of sufficient data, lack of reliability of the primary sources, lack of counter-investigation, etc."
[Ref. lbs1:] UFOLOGY BULLETIN "LA LIGNE BLEUE SURVOLEE?":
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25°) CASE No. F/98/88541027 {01)
MOUSSEY - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1954
In the 1st evening: around 8:30 P.M. local time
Witnesses: Mr. Guy CUVILLIER 13 years old and his mother
Sources:
"Events:
"Around 8:30 p.m. young Guy CUVILLIER leaves his parents' home in MOUSSEY to walk his dog. Barely outside the dog rushes towards a meadow, barking furiously. The boy follows him and discovers with stupor a circular craft placed in the meadow. For 1 minute he observes this craft, the details of which he will describe precisely to the MOUSSEY gendarmes who will question him, namely a dark circular object 4 to 5 m in diameter. He returns home to warn his mother. She ends up agreeing to follow him. When they arrive at the meadow, a reddish glow suddenly rises. They both run away.
Note:
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Comments: An investigation with the gendarmerie of MOUSSEY did not make it possible to find the report of the time. Perhaps the most serious case of landing in the Vosges.
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[Ref. lbs2:] UFOLOGY BULLETIN "LA LIGNE BLEUE SURVOLEE?":
| Num. | DATE | PLACE | TIME | SHORT DESCRIPTION | 1234 | SOURCES | EXPLANATIONS |
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| 10/27/1954 | MOUSSEY | about 08:30 p.m. | Circular craft posed in a meadow and observed by a young boy. Dog reaction. Departure observed by his mother. Police investigation. Diameter 4 to 5 m. Traces on the ground. | ..X. | J.VALLEE -M.FIGUET CVLDLN |
[Ref. mft1:] MICHEL FIGUET:
This ufologist noted:
| CASE Nr | CLASSIFICATION | DATE | HOUR | PLACE | ZIP CODE | CREDIBILITY SOURCE |
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| 265 | CE2 | 27 10 1954 | 20.30 | Moussey | 88210 | A7 NI RS P et C.V. 318 |
[Ref. lcl1:] CNEGU - UFOLOGY MAGAZINE "LUMIERES DANS LA NUIT":
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25°) CASE #F/98/88541 027 (01)
MOUSSEY - WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 27, 1954
In the evening: about 08:30 p.m. L.T.
Witnesses: Mr. Guy CUVILLIER 13-year-old and his mother.
Sources:
- M. Michel FIGUET p. 202, dossier rencontres rapprochées.
- Catalogue VALLEE case #318
- J. VALLEE p. 291
- Counter-investigation Gilles MUNSCH, F. DIOLEZ is ongoing
Events:
Around 8:30 p.m., the young Guy CUVILLIER leaves his parents' home in MOUSSEY to walk his dog. Hardly outside the dog rushes towards a meadow, barking furiously. The boy follows him and discovers with astonishment a circular craft posed in the meadow. For 1 minute he observes this apparatus, the details of which he will describe to the gendarmes of MOUSSEY who will question him, namely a dark object of circular shape of 4 to 5 m in diameter. He goes home to tell his mother. She finally agreed to follow him. When they arrive at the meadow, a reddish glow rises abruptly. Both run away.
To note:
- An investigation revealed triangular traces.
- The dog ran towards the meadow, barking furiously.
- A survey in 1984 found Ms. CUVILLER who unfortunately following the recent death of her son did not want to tell us anything other than "My son was not crazy, he did see it, anyway I too saw something."
Comments: An investigation by the gendarmerie MOUSSEY failed to find the report of the time. May be the most serious landing case of the Vosges.
[Ref. lgs1:] LOREN GROSS:
October 27th. Moussey, France. (8:30 p.m.)
A mysterious object landed on a Moussey schoolground where one of the pupils and the school principle saw the UFO. Strange marks of a triangular shape were left behind. No other details were given. 220.
[Ref. jsr1:] JEAN SIDER:
108 - October 27, 8:30 p.m., Moussey, Vosges.
Guy Cuvelier, 13 years old.
The witness walks his dog. Suddenly, he sees a circular craft placed in a meadow, which he observes for a minute. Previously, he was alerted by his dog who rushed into the meadow barking furiously. Triangular traces were found.
Source: Figuet, p. 202.
[Ref. lhh1:] LARRY HATCH - "*U* COMPUTER DATABASE":
4296: 1954/10/27 20:30 5 7:01:00 E 48:26:00 N 3333 WEU FRN VSG 7:7
MOUSSEY,FR:D49:DARK 5M SCR LANDED/FLD:TAKES OFF/RED GLO:TRIANGULAR TRACES
Ref# 30 FIGEUT[sic]&RUCHON: OVNI: Le 1er Dossier Page No. 202: FOREST
[Ref. goe1:] GODELIEVE VAN OVERMEIRE:
The Belgian ufologist indicates that in 1954, on October 27, in France, in Moussey "At 20:30 a schoolboy and his headmaster saw an object on the ground. Triangular traces noted."
The sources are indicated as "France-Soir, 30 oct 1954"; "Jacques Vallée: 'Chronique des apparitions ET' - Denoel 1972 - J'AI LU COLL. - p. 291".
She indicates that another version is: "Guy Cuvelier, 13 years old, leaves with the dog to make a walk. Hardly outside the dog springs towards the meadow while barking furiously. The young boy follows it and sees a circular object posed in the meadow. He looks at it attentively during a minute. He returns home to alert his mother. (...) Whereas they arrive in the meadow a reddish gleam rises abruptly. Frightened, Mrs. Cuvelier flees and her child too. Triangular traces."
The source is indicated as "M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet..." Alain Lefeuvre pub. 1979, p. 202".
[Ref. dox1] "DOSSIER X" WEBSITE:
October 27, 1954, 20h30. Moussey (France):
An object was seen on the ground by a schoolboy and school's headmaster. Triangular traces noted (France-Soir, 30 octobre 1954)
[Ref. jbu1:] JEROME BEAU:
1954
[...]
Wednesday October 27
[...]
20 h 30: In Moussey (France), 1 object is seen on the ground by a schoolboy and school's headmaster. Triangular traces noted [France-Soir, 30 octobre 1954].
[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN:
Luc Chastan indicates that in the Vosges in Moussey on October 27, 1954 at 20:30 hours "In the evening of Wednesday at 20:30, a young boy came out of the residence of his parents in Moussey to walk his dog. Hardly outside, the dog springs towards the meadow while barking furiously."
"The young boy follows it and makes then a discovery which strikes him with stupor: a strange machine of circular form is posed in the meadow. During one minute, the young witness observes this mysterious apparatus of which he will give to the gendarmes of Moussey the following description: a dark object of circular form from 4 to 5 meters in diameter posed in a meadow. He then returns home to alert his mother. The latter after having initially refused to take it seriously ends up agreeing to follow him. When they arrive in the meadow, a reddish gleam rises suddenly. Frightened, the mother flees and his child hastens to imitate her. Both will then alert their neighbors and the gendarmerie of Moussey will be alerted. An investigation will be open. Triangular traces were noted."
The source is indicated as "Ovni, Premier dossier complet... par Figuet M./ Ruchon J.L. ** Alain Lefeuvre pub. 1979".
[Ref. uda1:] "UFODNA" WEBSITE:
The website indicates that on 27 October 1954 at 20:30 in Moussey, France, "An object was seen on the ground by a schoolboy and his school director. Triangular traces were reported. An object was observed. Ground traces were found. One dark ball, about 20 feet across, was observed by two male witnesses in a forest."
The sources are indicated as "Bowen, Charles, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, FSR, London, 1966; Vallee, Jacques, A Century of Landings (N = 923), (in JVallee04), Chicago, 1969; Schoenherr, Luis, Computerized Catalog (N = 3173); Phillips, Ted R., Ted Phillips investigation files; Phillips, Ted R., Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, CUFOS, Chicago, 1975; Hatch, Larry, *U* computer database, Author, Redwood City, 2002".
[Ref. nip1:] "THE NICAP WEBSITE":
*Oct. 27, 1954 - The close encounter experiences continued unabated during that evening. At 7:30 p.m. farmer Gilbert Hee, in Les-Jonquerets-de-Livet, France was gathering pears when he suddenly saw an elongated object with a light at both ends resting in the pasture. He didn't dare get closer to investigate, but he did see cows gathering around the object. A minute later, the lights on the object went out, and the witness lost interest and went home. Two hours later, an 18-year-old man named Cheradame fell from his motorcycle when it suddenly failed at the same spot, and alerted neighbors saw the object again. It had moved only slightly and two occupants were seen. They were short, about one meter tall, and walked in a stiff fashion. They had on clothes resembling bright armor. They vanished suddenly, and the craft took off without making a sound. At 8:30 p.m. a schoolboy and his school director saw a UFO on the ground in Moussey, France. Triangular ground traces were reported. At 11:15 p.m. in Oye-Plage, France on Route N40, the Mayor's secretary saw a bright, cigar-shaped object for 15 minutes. It was flying very low and following the turns of the road at 20 meters altitude. It suddenly turned at a right angle from the road and flew away. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, cases 317-319; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-120, citing Vallee).
[Ref. ubk1:] "UFO-DATENBANK":
| Case Nr. | New case Nr. | Investigator | Date of observation | Zip | Place of observation | Country of observation | Hour of observation | Classification | Comments | Identification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19540000 | 00.00.1954 | Moussey | France | |||||||
| 19541027 | 27.10.1954 | Moussey | France | 20.30 | CE II | |||||
| 19541027 | 27.10.1954 | Moussey | France | 20.30 | ||||||
| 19541027 | 27.10.1954 | Moussey | France | 20.30 | CE II | |||||
| 19541027 | 27.10.1954 | Moussey | France | |||||||
| 19541027 | 27.10.1954 | Moussey | France | 20.30 | CE II |
[Ref. prn2:] PETER ROGERSON - "INTCAT":
October 27 1954. 2030hrs.
MOUSSEY (VOSGES: FRANCE)
Guy Culliver [sic] (13) was out walking his dog when the animal ran off, barking. Guy followed and encountered a dark circular machine, 4-5m in diameter in a meadow. The boy ran back home. At first his parents would not believe him, but later his mother went with him to the scene, in time to see a reddish glow taking off rapidly. The both fled again. When police investigated they found triangular marks and blackened grass at the site.
Note: "Gross 1954" is supposed to be my page, but no link is provided and its content is not really reflected.
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If there were not the round ground traces placed in equilateral triangle, it would have been argued that it was a helicopter.
However, the description does not match a helicopter at all, and the witness was reportedly three meters from the object, which further rules out such a mistake.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Moussey, Vosges, object, landing, child, schoolboy, director, school, multiple, traces, ground, triangular, round, gleam, red, Guy Cuvillier, Guy Cuvelier, night, Gendarmes, official, investigation
[----] indicates sources that are not yet available to me.
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