UFOs in the daily Press:

The pilots of a "saucer" reportedly came to pick flowers in Portugal

Visitors from another world landed on September 24 at 10 a.m. in the Gardunha mountains, on the Spanish-Portuguese border."

This sensational news was reported to our colleague Duario [sic] de Lisboa by a Portuguese farmer who, along with three other workers, was working in a field near the landing site.

"A sphere appeared in the sky," the farmer recounted. "It flew at dizzying speed and emitted multicolored flashes. Silently, the craft landed 200 meters from us. Three figures—looking like men made of aluminum—emerged. These visitors, more than 2 meters tall, began picking flowers and gathering stones, which they placed into a sparkling box."

"Noticing us, the three men approached and emitted a few sounds... Seeing that we did not understand their language, they invited us by gestures to board their craft."

The farmer added that "they politely declined." Without insisting, the mysterious visitors returned to their machine, which rose vertically at lightning speed, releasing a shower of sparks.

The witnesses noted that at the moment of takeoff, only the "poles" of the sphere rotated, and the transparent "equatorial" section allowed glimpses of moving shadows inside...

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It was reported from Lisbon that "a very large and extraordinarily bright concentration of light" was seen in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, at 37° West longitude and 38° North latitude, by Captain Freeman of "Pan American Airways," who was piloting a flight on the New York–South Africa route.

Upon landing in the Portuguese capital, the captain reported that while flying off the coast of the Azores en route to Lisbon, he was struck by the presence of several sparkling lights on the ocean. The plane was flying at an altitude of 6,400 meters, the sky was clear, and the atmosphere transparent, added Captain Freeman, who further specified that this light could not be mistaken—by its brilliance or the vast area it covered—for that of a ship.