The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Quotidien de la Haute-Loire, France, on August 26, 1954.
The aviation magazine "Aviation Week Magazine" reported Monday that two enormous meteors are currently orbiting the Earth, at distances of 450 and 1,000 kilometers respectively. The magazine specifies that the announcement of this discovery had thrown senior U.S. Air Force officers into confusion, which only ended when Dr. Lincoln La Paz, director of the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico, managed to establish that it was a natural phenomenon and not artificial devices. "Aviation Week Magazine" adds that Dr. La Paz had to go to the Palomar Mountain Observatory to confirm that they were indeed meteors.
The police chief of Mosjoen, in northern Norway, announced that two women claim to have seen a flying saucer land. According to the newspaper "Helgoland", the pilot was a dark-haired man with long hair and a foreign appearance, who tried in vain to communicate with the two young women using gestures and signs, but without success. The two women, who were picking wild strawberries in the hills near Mosjoen, spoke to the stranger in English, French, and German, but were unable to establish contact. The stranger led them to his craft, a flying saucer about five meters in diameter, then climbed inside, rose vertically, and quickly disappeared. According to the police chief, the "encounter" reportedly took place last Friday (August 20, 1954), but the two women (sisters aged 24 and 32) had said nothing until now for fear of not being believed. One of them, however, told her husband, and today both women were questioned separately by the police. The two accounts differed only in minor details. The flying saucer's occupant was wearing a kind of khaki jumpsuit, without buttons, but possibly with a belt. The flying saucer rose at an incredible speed with a buzzing sound like that of a bee.
