The article below was published in the daily newspaper France Soir, Paris, France, page 7, on October 15, 1954.
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TOULOUSE, October 14 (A.F.P.). -- The passengers of flying saucers are interested in the Indochinese question. Such is the surprising conclusion reportedly drawn by Mr. Jean Marty, 42, a mechanic living in Léguevin (Haute-Garonne). Mr. Marty stated that during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, he saw a luminous disc land in the middle of a field, measuring 6 to 7 meters in diameter and 2.5 meters in height.
Around 10:30 p.m., Mr. Marty was working in his workshop, located along the Toulouse road, opposite a field, about 1.5 km from Léguevin. Looking up, he noticed the luminous object. Curious, he went outside, crossed the road, and approached the disc, which then rose silently into the air, vertically, and disappeared at tremendous speed. Mr. Marty walked into the middle of the field to examine the landing spot. He found no traces but discovered two sheets of glossy white paper lying on the grass.
The commercial-sized pages were neither soiled, damp, nor wrinkled, but in perfectly clean condition, as if freshly torn from a new brochure. Mr. Marty handed them over to the police. They were examined by a retired multilingual military man who had spent many years in Indochina and now lives in Léguevin, Mr. Maggy. He stated the text was written in "kuoc-nu", an Annamese dialect.
MONTLUCON, October 14 (dispatch "France-Soir"). -- An S.N.C.F. employee working at the Montluçon station, Mr. Laugère, from the maintenance service, was conducting a routine inspection Sunday evening around 8:30 p.m., when, according to his statement, he noticed a metallic object shaped like a torpedo, 4 to 5 meters long, resting on four legs above a diesel tank used for fueling railcars. A small man, covered in hair, was near the craft. Mr. Laugère shouted:
- What are you doing there?
- Gas oil! replied the figure.
Mr. Laugère did not press the matter further and fled in panic to inform his colleagues of what had just happened.
HAMBURG, October 14 (A.F.P.). -- "The pilots of flying saucers are reasoning plants," is the theory presented to an Agence France-Presse correspondent by Professor Hermann Oberth, the inventor and builder of the famous "V-2" rocket.
According to the German scientist, these "uranides" (as he names these beings) are thousands of years ahead of Earthlings in both spiritual development and technology.
