Flap: Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France métropolitaine, Mar 1934
3 reports · 3 separate documents
Other Aquatic (2), Other / Unknown (1).
In the 10 years either side we have no other reports within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Mar 1, 1934 Witnesses report a mysterious animal washed ashore near Cherbourg that resembles a sea serpent.
Other Aquatic · Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France métropolitaine - Mar 8, 1934 Witness reports the discovery of a 25-foot long strange beast with a square head and yard-long neck stranded on the French coast.
Other Aquatic · Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France métropolitaine - Mar 1934 A radiophoto shows a twenty-five-foot long creature with a neck and camel's head washed ashore near Cherbourg.
Other / Unknown · Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France métropolitaine
Sources: Newspaper (3).
How we find flaps
- Plain rules, no model: reports within 37 miles and about four months of each other are grouped, and a group counts only when it is at least 5 times what that place usually sees over the 10 years either side.
- A flap needs at least 3 reports from at least 3 separate documents: one article listing six sightings is one telling.
- Copies are not confirmations: a story reprinted in thirty papers counts once.
- Investigator logs (BFRO, NAWAC, the Loch Ness Register) are left out, because a busy field season looks just like a flap.
- Only reports placed to a town or county and dated to the month are used. A flap is a burst of reports, not proof of a creature: panics, hoaxes and newspaper fashions make flaps too.