The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Aurore, Paris, France, page 13, on October 12, 1954.
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Flying saucers have certainly not finished providing us with surprises. Until now, the pilots of these celestial craft were hairy gnomes or unattractive giants who, though affable, did not give us a particularly cheerful vision of Martian humanity.
A colonial schoolteacher on vacation on the island of Oléron, Mr. Martin, has just discovered some charming representatives of a world that never ceases to rain down upon us objects of the least graceful sort. This fortunate mortal found himself, the other day, face-to-face with two pretty Martian women wearing little boots, leather jackets and gloves, along with shiny helmets. At the sight of these women with their martial and Martian appearance, Mr. Martin gallantly stepped forward and offered them his notebook and pen to collect an autograph. Without the slightest hesitation, they traced hieroglyphs in it, commenting volubly in an unknown language. Then the Martian women, about 1.70 m tall, bowed politely to the schoolteacher and flew off aboard a saucer...
Mr. Martin is said to have carefully kept this unique manuscript...
NEAR MACHAULT, not far from Melun, a butcher declared that he saw in the sky a cylindrical craft which, while moving at great speed, emitted an orange glow.
IN MEAUX, Mr. Lefranc, an employee of a Paris bank, reportedly saw, for three minutes, an object the size of a football moving at low altitude, which seemed lit from within, and which disappeared leaving behind it a luminous trail.
IN WESTPHALIA, four Martians repair their saucer under a witness’s eyes.
Mr. Hoge, a cinema operator, was near Münster (Westphalia) when he noticed in a field four men in rubber suits busy under an object shaped like a cigar. Mr. Hoge watched them work for ten minutes, without approaching, and eventually the four men climbed back aboard via a kind of ladder into the cigar, which, after taking off, took the shape of a saucer projecting a dazzling light.
NEAR FRANKFURT, three members of a flying school, among them several former Luftwaffe pilots, observed for ten minutes a silver disc moving at about 3,000 meters altitude, without the slightest sound.
IN CAMEROON, a flying mushroom hovered for 15 seconds at 600 meters altitude above the city of Yaoundé, then suddenly disappeared. Several credible witnesses observed this apparition: Colonel Cauvin, Director of the Hygiene and Preventive Services of Cameroon, Dr. Menu, chief physician of Yaoundé Hospital, along with Mr. Dumont, head of security services, and Mr. Poilleux, councillor of the Territorial Assembly of Cameroon.
IN LEBANON, Mr. Max Favell, Beirut representative of a German firm, claims to have seen, by the seaside, a motionless craft in the sky that emitted a white light. The craft landed for a few seconds, then took off vertically while spinning on itself and quickly flew away.
IN EGYPT, several hundred inhabitants of Alexandria reported the presence, the other night, of a luminous object in the sky that appeared to move while shifting color from red to orange, then green and bluish gray. Meteorological officials at the Alexandria airfield alerted by phone the Helwan Observatory near Cairo to request that the phenomenon be photographed, but the craft disappeared before the observatory’s special telescope could be made ready.
IN NEW ZEALAND, Mr. K.-M. Gibbons, of Nelson, succeeded in taking with a telephoto lens a series of photographs of three flying saucers.
The developed film shows cylindrical objects possessing a sort of dark core.
