UFOs in the daily Press:

The myth of the "saucers" crumbles day by day

The hairy Martian who frightened the baker's apprentice in Loctudy (Finistère) was just a trained goat that escaped from a circus

It is with satisfaction that we note, over the past week, a change in tone in the so-called sensationalist press regarding the "flying saucers." The "Martians" have disappeared from the front pages, *Paris-Presse* admits it was the victim of a hoax, and the Agence France-Presse seems to have stopped raving. All the better.

We have never ceased here to demonstrate, at every opportunity, the mechanisms of hoaxes, hallucinations, and false perceptions that inflated the "saucer" myth, in the absence of any dossier - always devoid of physical evidence. We did not hesitate to call for sanctions against dishonest witnesses and for the public authorities to take a stand, as this psychosis spread across the country just when crucial national issues were at stake.

We also decided to refrain from publishing unverified reports that we received daily, but we continued to share examples of pranks or illusions for which we had proof. Here are two new ones:

Last week, motorists claimed to have seen a mysterious craft in the Morestel region (Isère), which they believed had landed near that town. Indeed, a farmer from a nearby hamlet reported seeing a "strange device" in a field that emitted an intermittent light.

It turned out to be a weather balloon with its recording instruments, which included bulbs that change their light depending on certain temperature conditions. The balloon bore the address of the meteorological observatory in Trappes (Seine-et-Oise).

Meanwhile, the baker's apprentice in Loctudy (Finistère), who believed in the middle of the night that he was being followed from the bakery courtyard to his oven by a hairy Martian with enormous eyes, has since calmed down. It was, in fact, a trained goat belonging to a traveling circus that had wandered into the bakery.

Animal life cannot exist on Mars

Washington, October 24. -- Recently returned from South Africa, where he studied the planet Mars for six months, an astronomer, Dr. Slipher, claims to have discovered new evidence that plant life - but not human life - exists on Mars.

According to his observations, vegetation on Mars must be extremely simple.

Given the scarcity of oxygen and the absence of water, it seems highly unlikely that animal life similar to that on Earth could exist under Martian conditions, he said.