The article below was published in the daily newspaper Libération, Paris, France, page 6, on October 9, 1954.
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The Good Lord's china continues to shatter across the skies of Western Europe — while seemingly taking care to respect the Iron Curtain.
Several residents of Corbigny (Nièvre) claim to have seen, last night, a cigar-shaped object moving at high speed with two discs underneath it. People from Saint-Plantaire saw what looked like a flying football. A red disc was reported by twenty people in Orthez, and luminous globes danced in a circle in front of the patrons of a bar in Quintin (Côtes-du-Nord).
But it was an oval balloon that an employee of a business in Cholette [sic], near Montargis, spotted at high altitude.
As for Mr. Joseph Roy, a mechanic from Reims, he nearly touched a strange object, three meters long, with portholes and a beam of light blinking over a vague silhouette.
But the prize undoubtedly goes, for yesterday's events, to the thousands of Austrians who were able to observe the movements of a true “formation” of flying saucers heading — of course — from East to West.
However, no one has yet boasted — so far — of having smoked one of those flying cigarillos the sky seems to promise us.
