The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Union, of Reims, France, page 4, on October 4, 1954.
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The waltz of flying saucers and other mysterious craft continues with renewed vigor. From all corners of France, they are spotted - sometimes as strange oval-shaped devices, with or without legs, sometimes as "flying cigars" moving silently, leaving or not leaving luminous trails. This collective hallucination has not failed to move one of our parliamentarians, namely Mr. Jean Nocher, deputy of the Loire, who, in a written question, informs the Secretary of State for Air of the public's concern caused by the numerous and diverse testimonies regarding "flying saucers."
He asks him "whether his predecessors at the Air Secretariat have, as in the United States and the U.S.S.R. for many years, taken steps to open an investigation into the presence of unidentified flying objects in our atmosphere."
"If so, he requests publishable results of these investigations. If not, he asks that a commission be formed, broadly extended to all interested scientific fields, in order to study this phenomenon objectively, separating the truth from possible errors or hoaxes."
The latest information on this matter comes from Mr. Bernard Goujon, 30, who was working with several road maintenance workers from the Ponts et Chaussées along the Coulommiers-Meaux road, not far from the Quincy-Voisins airfield, and who reported having seen a flying saucer.
More loquacious than the others, Mr. Goujon stated that he saw, in a field to the left of the road, about 200 meters from him, at the base of a small stand of poplars, a strange oval-shaped device about 3 meters in diameter and 2.5 meters high. It was, he said, resting on the ground with the help of three fairly tall legs. Its upper part had a small translucent dome that appeared to be made of plastic. The entire craft was made of a metal shining like aluminum.
Mr. Goujon recounted that he tried to approach the craft, but when he reached about 150 meters, he felt tingling as if an invisible electric ray were being directed at him.
"I felt," he said, "paralyzed, and my vision blurred slightly. I then saw the saucer rise very slowly, silently, like a "˜falling leaf," to about 25 meters above the ground. It hovered for a moment, then, still silently and without any luminous trail, disappeared at high speed."
