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UFOs in the daily Press:

The 1954 French flap in the press:

The article below was published in the daily newspaper Franc-Tireur, Paris, France, page 3, on October 1, 1954.

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The "saucer" over Revard was a flight of starlings

But the round of sightings continues

The round of "flying saucers" continues, still lively despite the explanation of the "extraordinary phenomenon" to which a doctor and fifteen people—all sane and trustworthy—had lent their full credibility the day before yesterday.

There was, in fact, a seventeenth person near Revard: a pilot who, also intrigued, approached the luminous object and realized that it was starlings engaging in their usual glittering games in the setting sun. As the plane approached, they scattered, ending the phenomenon. The pilot, Mr. Guyard of Challes-les-Eaux, spoke with the doctor, who admitted he may have been mistaken.

Unfortunately, there isn't a pilot everywhere mysterious craft appear.

In Rebais (Seine-et-Marne), several people saw a mysterious craft.

In Vaudoy (Seine-et-Marne), police officers (C.R.S.) spotted a luminous disc.

In Montpellier, Mrs. Picot de la Baume saw a shining cigar-shaped object surrounded by a halo.

In Landéda (Finistère), several residents saw a luminous disc.

In Cabestany (Pyrénées-Orientales), a milkman saw a ball of fire.

In Augé (Deux-Sèvres), Mr. Picot, a brewer, saw a yellow disc.

In Steyreg (Upper Austria), two gendarmes saw a saucer;

In Bonn (Germany), several people observed a formation of unidentified flying objects followed by a lone "saucer."

And one of the pilots of these unsettling craft once again materialized. A resident of Diges, near Auxerre, and the young shepherdess of a nearby farm each saw from a distance a cigar-shaped object landed in a meadow. The pilot of this mysterious craft, of normal height, dressed in khaki and wearing a side cap, had stepped out and was leaning over his engine. This sight so frightened both women that they fled and locked themselves in, acting on the same instinct.

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