UFOs in the daily Press:

IN ITALY, THE MARTIANS
have a cone instead of legs

In France, they speak Russian

Epinal, 24. -- A WORKER FROM SAINT-REMY (VOSGES), MR. LOUIS UJVARI, 40 YEARS OLD, WENT TO REPORT TO THE GENDARMES OF RAON-L'ETAPE THE STRANGE ENCOUNTER HE HAD LAST WEDNESDAY AROUND 3 A.M. ON HIS WAY TO WORK.

HE WAS APPROACHED ON THE ROAD BY A STRANGER of heavy build and average height, wearing a gray jacket with shiny insignias on the shoulders.

The man spoke an unknown language. Mr. Ujvari, who is of Czech nationality, tried speaking Russian just in case. His interlocutor understood perfectly. "Where am I?" he asked. "In Italy or in Spain?" When he learned he was in France, he asked how far it was to the German border, then asked the time. The worker told him it was about 2:30 a.m., whereupon the man pulled out a watch from his jacket that showed 4 a.m.

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Saucers and Martians

He ordered the worker to move forward; soon Ujvani saw, in the middle of the road, a craft shaped like two plates turned upside down and pressed together, from which a kind of periscope emerged.

When he got about thirty meters from the device, which was about 1.5 meters high and 2.5 meters wide, the stranger told him to move away. But turning around from time to time, Mr. Ujvani was able to see the craft slowly rise vertically with a sound like a sewing machine. Once it reached an estimated altitude of 500 meters, it leveled out and disappeared to the south.

To take the risk of telling such a story to the gendarmes, Mr. Ujvani must be very sure of what he saw - or thought he saw - because perhaps he was still dreaming...

A Martian dwarf

His Martian bears no resemblance to the one an Italian man saw near Milan. Mr. Pugina, a 37-year-old businessman, saw in the garden of his villa "a very small man, a Martian dwarf," he said. "His head was covered by a kind of helmet, his chest protected by armor; he had Mongolian-like eyes and radiated light. The lower part of his body was conical and was connected to his saucer, which was the size of a bicycle wheel, by a tube."

Mr. Pugina, who was questioned by the police, stated that he was momentarily petrified, and the little man took advantage of it to jump into his craft and disappear.

Weather balloon or hallucination

Mr. Gustave Swoboda, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, under the auspices of the United Nations, currently visiting Austria, clarified things yesterday in Vienna: "Investigations have shown that 76% of all unidentified flying objects observed were weather balloons, and the rest were hallucinations."