16 August 1954, Tananarive (Antananarivo), Madagascar. Precis of reports:- A double-shape `machine' - consisting of a 40m (130 foot) green `lens-shape' in front of a 40m metallic 'football-shape' with a silent blue exhaust - appeared over Tananarive City just after a "green meteorite" or shooting star had been seen to fall some miles away to the south. The `machine' flew at a reported speed of approx. 300km/h directly over the city, just above roof-top height, in full view of walkers and commuters. The number of witnesses is estimated at being from 20,000 to 200,000 people, in the city and at the airport. The object traversed the main city avenue, accompanied by rolling electrical blackouts which ceased immediately after its passage overhead. It created panic among animal life, both street & backyard animals and livestock held at the city cattle-market, although all these animals were habituated to low-flying aircraft using the city's airfield. Two or three minutes after the object disappeared to the west, a report came from a farm school 150 kms to the South, that the same (or similar) object was terrifying their animals, which "ran away into the swamps" If the same object - its speed en-route was about 3,000 km/hr. ---------------------------------- The commanding officer of the French Air Force unit launched an investigation led by the head of local Observatory, who had watched the event himself from there. He is said to have interviewed about 5,000 of the many thousands of potential witnesses. One highly qualified witness was M. Edmond Castagnac (or Campagnac?) the local technical boss for Air France, who had watched the object's flight over the city from close quarters. Apparently the subsequent report was `lost' because the authorities in France denied all knowledge of the event several years later. Refs:- http://www.chez.com/lesovnis/htm/tana54.htm note: that's now gone, seems to have been tranferred to this address http://www.ufologie.net/htm/tana54.htm Article in Madagascar newspaper - Fandrosoam Baovao, January 21, 1955. see http://ufologie.net/press2/fandrosoambaovao21jan1955.htm Bulletin du GEPA (Groupe d'Etudes des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux), Issue 6, 2nd semester, 1964 LDLN Magazine, (Lumières Dans La Nuit) Forum Planète, televised debate, "UFOS" (M. Castagnac repeats his account) Now also mentioned in reviews of French COMETA report - see http://www.rense.com/ufo4/frenchufo.htm http://users.skynet.be/sky84985/chron12.html (French) edit/find for Tananarive ------------------------------------------------------------------------ footnote to http://www.perceptions.couk.com/uef/wb2.html - "psyche storms" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FURTHER REFERENCES GO - "search perceptions" - in SEARCH-ENGINE file-ID www.perceptions.couk.com/uef/tanan.txt