The article below was published in the daily newspaper France Soir, Paris, France, page 7, on October 30, 1954.
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BERNAY, October 29 ("France-Soir" dispatch).
A sign of modern times: today, cows watch flying saucers go by. This just happened in a small village near Bernay, Les Jonquerets-de-Livet, where a farmer, Mr. Gilbert Hée, witnessed this unusual spectacle two days ago.
"I was gathering pears," he said, "around 7:30 p.m. Suddenly, I saw two lights in the pasture: one red and one green at each end of an elongated object. I thought it couldn't be a car since the object was hovering above the fences. I didn't dare approach, but I saw the cows forming a circle around it. After about a minute, everything went dark and I went home. But then, at 11 p.m., young Chéradame, 18, and René Marais arrived. René had just fallen off his motorcycle. He was riding along the road when suddenly his bike was blocked completely. He flew over the handlebars and landed in the ditch. 'There are Martians in the area!' he shouted."
"We lit a blowtorch and I saw a dazzling light coming from a craft shaped just like the one I had seen earlier. It was the same one, only slightly moved. René and young Chéradame approached and saw two small men, about one meter tall, walking stiffly and dressed in suits that shone like armor. They disappeared suddenly. The craft lifted off silently and flew away over the forest."
"Two weeks ago, my eldest son already saw a dazzling saucer in the sky above our house."
After this discovery, Mr. Hée went to count his livestock. With Martians, you never know! Not a single one was missing. Naturally, the story is making waves in the region, where people are particularly interested in the saucers' movements.
At Noyer-en-Ouche, a few kilometers away, a similar experience happened to a local girl, Miss Ginette Coqueret, 17. She was returning from Bernay, where she works for her family in Noyer. She arrived in the village at night, on her bicycle. Immediately, she was surrounded:
"So," they asked her, "weren't you afraid?"
"Afraid of what?" she replied.
"Of the flying saucers, of course! And the Martians!"
Truth be told, Miss Coqueret had never heard of Martians before and struggled to grasp the danger she had narrowly avoided - alone in the night, easy prey for saucer pilots. That was, of course, in the imagination of her fellow villagers.
There was more commotion in the region last week when a stranger pitched his tent at the foot of an old tower, the Tower of Thevray, near Beaumesnil. The man didn't hide his motive: he had come from Rambouillet in search of saucers. The area around the old tower seemed to him very suitable for landings. He decided to wait for them there. Unfortunately, his watch was in vain. He is very disappointed. It really is difficult to decipher the strategy of flying saucers.
* A NEW FLYING SAUCER reportedly landed Wednesday evening, around 8:30 p.m., in Moussey, at the northeastern tip of the Vosges department. The craft was seen from afar by a young schoolboy, then by his headmaster. Clear traces were found in the ground. They form a triangular shape.
LILLE, October 28 ("France-Soir" dispatch). -- For the second time, Mr. Marius Dewilde saw a flying saucer and its passengers. The resident of Quarouble, near Valenciennes, who had once encountered two Martians coming out of their landed craft on the railway tracks, saw a saucer again - this time in broad daylight.
It landed on the railway line near his home. The little men who emerged spoke to him in an unknown language before reboarding. The craft disappeared without noise or smoke.
The railroad ties were examined and the same marks as before were found - slightly wider this time and perfectly symmetrical. The grass was flattened where the landing supposedly occurred.
