The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Union, of Reims, France, page 5, on October 5, 1954.
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This strange rocket (our photo) is currently on display in Turin, where 15 countries are presenting their latest creations in the technical and mechanical fields. It reflects the desire of Earthlings not to fall behind and soon to go and spend weekends visiting "Martians" or "Uranids," as a German scientist calls the pilots of these flying saucers that now haunt our nights and especially our weekends. They were reportedly seen again on Sunday in the Somme and in the Deux-Sèvres.
- They are not Martians, but Uranids, reveals a German scientist, Professor Hermann Oberth, a rocket specialist.
According to him, 10% of the observed craft are indeed flying saucers, and it is possible that they are operated by creatures similar to humans. He proposes the term "Uranids" to designate these unknown beings.
- The "Uranids," he says, are probably several thousand years ahead of our time.
To explain why no flying saucer has yet crashed on Earth, Professor Oberth suggests that the pilots may have perfect mastery of their machines and that, for a reason human intelligence cannot imagine, they may not desire any contact with terrestrial creatures.
Considering another possibility, Professor Oberth recalled that the observed saucers could be regarded as an improvement of the V-7, German rockets from the end of the war, several prototypes of which, according to the scientist, fell into Russian hands in 1945.
Two young men saw "Uranids" on Sunday in the Somme. Between Crécy and Ligescourt, they noticed a strange craft around which individuals of bizarre shape were moving about. They resembled a haystack, they told the gendarmes. When they approached the haystack, it "took off".
An employee of the Bressuire slaughterhouse center, Mr. Angelo Girardeau, 55, living in Breuil-Chaussée (Deux-Sèvres), declared that he too saw, on Sunday morning while going to work, a circular craft near which stood a being that appeared to him to be dressed in a sort of diving suit. The "Uranid" moved toward Mr. Girardeau, who, frightened, fled. Shortly afterward, the craft departed again at very high speed.
Moreover, many people, among them officers from the High Mountain School, gendarmes from Chamonix, and the pilot Guiron, a specialist in high-mountain flying who was flying over the region at the time, stated that they saw for more than an hour a shining craft maneuvering between Mont Lachat and Mont Blanc.
Flying saucers have also been sighted in the Ivory Coast. The news became known through an official report sent to the governor of Ivory Coast by Mr. Vernhet, chief administrator of the subdivision of Danané, a town located 500 kilometers northwest of Abidjan.
