The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Croix, France, page 6, on September 16, 1954.
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What can I say? All these flying saucer stories are making my head spin... What if Mr. Mazaud of Bugeat (Corrèze) really did receive a kiss from a Martian?... Our skepticism would look pretty foolish...
Especially since there's another witness in the person of Mr. Frugier of Limoges, who saw, at the same time and on the same day as the affectionate interplanetary encounter in Bugeat, a red disc streaking across the sky from east to west. Now, Limoges is northwest of Bugeat - the very direction taken by the mysterious craft, according to the Corrèze farmer's statement.
That's more than a coincidence...
So, eager to speed up contact with Martians, I set out to verify whether the inhabitants of the planet closest to us after the Moon have already begun colonizing our globe.
Thus I looked for Mars - not my Lenten resolution, but around me. And to my horror, I realized that the editorial staff of La Croix surely harbors a Martian sympathizer in the person of Félicien Mars... Who would have thought it!... His language column must be a cover...
The same goes for the singer Colette Mars... Ah! She hides her game well.
Worse still, our formidable neighbor is maintaining, within the very heart of the French army, cohorts ready to intervene: their name is as transparent as interstellar space. What else do you think the *marsouins* (naval infantry) are for?...
I tell you, we've been infiltrated!...
Just think: the second-largest city in France is called Mars-eille! And we give our young people a novel by Vigny titled Cinq-Mars... Just like that. It's unbelievable!...
And then there are the cryptos: Jean Mars...ac, Karl Mars, the Mars Brothers, etc. I'm devastated!...
It's time to react! Unless these creatures of the Good Lord are truly peaceful... And have only good intentions...
The very name Mars, god of war, is certainly not reassuring...
But wasn't it we Earthlings who gave him that name?...
LE PASSANT.
