12/07/2026
From the upcoming book FANTÔMES MÉTÉORES by Florian Luthi
FANTÔMES MÉTÉORES explores the shifting boundary between reality, memory, and myth. The project draws from the wave of UFO sightings that swept across France in 1954, particularly along the French-Swiss border. Newspapers at the time reported strange lights, apparitions, and mysterious encounters that often left behind little more than fear and speculation.
Florian Luthi produced a photographic narrative where truth wavers and past stories linger. Using archival materials, re-enactments, and documentary pictures, he merged historical events with his own interpretations and turned the Jura Mountains into a stage where memory, myth and landscape collide.
The project will be on view at Centre de la photographie Genève from Monday the 13th of July to the 2nd of October
FANTÔMES MÉTÉORES will be one of Éditions La CAB next publications
Archives :
1. Article in the regional newspaper Le Bien Public, Dijon, France, p. 3, 1 October 1954.
2. French National Gendarmerie report, 29 September 1954. Published by GEIPAN, c. 2014.
3. Weekly magazine Radar, Paris, France, 10 October 1954.
