UFOs in the daily Press:

Flying saucer pilot asked for oil, says railwayman

A FLYING SAUCER pilot was reported last night to have tried to refuel his 12-foot long torpedo-shaped machine at the expense of the French railways.

M. Laugere, a railwayman who works at Montlucon station, said he saw the pilot and his machine outside a diesel store.

He asked the man, who was either covered with hair or wearing a long hairy overcoat, what he wanted. The man said something M. Laugere could not make out but he thought he heard the word "gasoil."

M. Laugere started off to report to the stationmaster, but before he had gone a 100 yards the machine took off and vanished.

That is the latest report in a spate of French accounts of mysterious flying objects, saucers, bells, mushrooms and other shapes.