The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Courrier de Saône-et-Loire, France, pages 1 and 8, on October 7, 1954.
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From all over, reports are coming in of mysterious craft in the sky. Numerous witnesses - many of unquestionable sincerity - claim to have seen objects of various shapes.
Yesterday, north of Dijon, in Poncey-sur-l'Ignon, a woman reported seeing a mysterious craft land. The Saint-Seine gendarmerie went to the scene.
QUIMPER. -- Around 4 a.m. on Tuesday morning, Mr. Pierre Lucas, a baker in Loctudy (Finistère), who was drawing water in the bakery courtyard, suddenly saw in the night a saucer-shaped object 2.5 to 3 meters in diameter. He saw a figure about 1.2 meters tall emerge from it, approach him, and tap him on the shoulder while uttering unintelligible words.
The baker managed to stay calm and returned to the bakehouse, where the stranger followed him.
In the light, Mr. Lucas was able to get a better look at the visitor.
He had an oval face, completely covered with hair, and eyes the size of a crow’s egg.
The young man called for his boss, but before the latter could come down, the nighttime stranger had disappeared - along with the saucer, which left no trace.
A beer merchant from Concarneau also reported seeing in the sky two luminous discs shaped like round tables, extended by a kind of tail.
One of the discs remained stationary while the other moved nearby. The two discs disappeared after ten minutes, having launched a flare.
CLERMONT-FERRAND. -- Two saucers were spotted in the Clermont sky. The first one was 10 kilometers from Beaumont, at 3:45 p.m., moving from west to east.
Witnesses stated that the craft approached them and became less and less bright.
When it was only 150 meters away, they felt a strange sensation and were paralyzed on the spot. At that moment, a smell of nitrobenzene filled the air. Soon, the craft moved away, the discomfort ceased, and the saucer disappeared. The second saucer was spotted above the Chanturgue hills, near Clermont. It was moving vertically and shone with a bright white light.
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A saucer was also seen in Billom by a group of 30 people. The craft was moving over the town.
It was moving horizontally. It was visible for 3 or 4 minutes before disappearing. An intense light emanated from the object.
SAINT-BRIEUC. -- Several residents of Saint-Brieuc saw a flying saucer last night that took the shape of a cigar before vanishing. They were able to observe it for more than an hour.
The same phenomenon was reported in Trégueux, where a cyclist returned home frightened by what he had seen.
LA ROCHELLE. -- Last night, several people from Thouaré-sur-Vie (Vendée) saw in the sky about ten luminous, elongated objects moving at very high speed and altitude.
LA ROCHELLE. -- Mr. and Mrs. Guillemoteau were in front of their farm when they saw, about one meter above the ground, a spherical saucer approximately 2 to 3 meters high and 5 meters in diameter. The craft, which made no sound, hovered for a few minutes, then ascended vertically.
The next day, Mr. Guillemoteau went to the spot where he had seen the craft and found oily traces on the grass.
MANTUA. -- Traffic was interrupted for more than an hour in central Mantua as crowds gathered to observe a strange "white object" that stood out clearly against the blue sky at a high altitude.
After performing extremely rapid maneuvers, the spherical-shaped object - which, according to some witnesses, was part of a "formation of flying saucers" - remained motionless in the sky for some time before disappearing over the horizon.
Furthermore, the Martians seem to want to visit Italy as well. In fact, a fisherman from Roverbella, in the province of Mantua, reported being approached last night by a mysterious individual dressed in red who spoke unintelligible words and quickly fled before the fisherman had time to call his wife.
