The 1954 French flap:

An red and yellow AERIAL OVOID observed on Arles

Arles (C.P.).

Arles also had its "unidentified object" - not to call it flying saucer.

A group of residents of Arles living in the end of the Sadi-Carnot avenue, near the channel of Arles to Bouc, witnessed, indeed, Wednesday evening, around 7 p.m., the maneuvers of an object in the sky.

According to the statements which were made to us, in particular by Mrs. Paul Forbaud and her son Adrien, a kind of luminous ball was rather high in the sky in direction of Sainte-Maries-de-la-Mer. This ball started to whirl before going down slowly on the horizon.

This descent lasted several minutes since the observers had time to go get a binocular in order to better observe the phenomenon.

The binoculars made it possible to see an object of ovoid form then, the higher part appearing of dark red color, whereas the lower part was paler, vaguely yellowish.

Mrs. Forbaud specified to us that she had already observed, three weeks ago, a kind of disc placed vertically and emitting yellow, green and red gleams.

THE MAYOR OF BASTIDONNE (VAUCLUSE) SAW "ONE"

Pertuis (C.P.).

A luminous disc, of lengthened form, a thickness of 1 meter approximately, was clearly seen in the area of Pertuid yesterday afternoon, and particularly in La Bastidonne.

Mr. Francis Jausserand, mayor of this village, came in person to describe the phenomenon to us:

"It was 6 p.m. when I returned from harvesting grapee. A very shining disc moving horizontally between the hills of Myrargues and Luberon, leaving a sharp reddish trail, stopped almost above the village of La Bastidonne and stayed motionless during about twenty seconds, then, without any noise nor trace, disappeared at a vertiginous speed, vertically."

This testimony of the mayor of Bastidonne was confirmed to us by other people who observed the luminous object from different places, the details and the schedule perfectly coinciding.

LUMINOUS SPHERE IN THE SKY OF THE LOW ALPS

Volonne (C.P.).

Yesterday at the end of the afternoon, residents of Volonne occupied gathering the grapes, saw a large reddish ball whirling on itself at a very fast pace.

In addition, hundreds of people working at the Pechiney factory of Saint-Auban, saw around 18 hours a brilliant sphere moving at a very high pace; it appeared flanked of two large pipes on the side.

FLYING CIGAR IN THE MALLEMORT SKY

Mallemort (C.P.).

Yesterday evening around 18 hours, three people worthy of faith saw a flying cigar. It was motionless above the mounts of Luberon, in direction of Mérindol.

It resembled a long spindle of color aluminium. It was motionless in the sky.

A few minutes afterwards, it disappeared at very high speed, leaving a luminous trail behind it.

These three people: Green Marcel, Armenico Paul and Espagnet Francois, are serious people and this confirms the statements of several others, which would have seen flying saucers since a few days in the sky of Mallemort.

"A ball, from which came out a red and green flame" in the sky of Avignon

Avignon (C.P.).

Yesterday, around 06:10 p.m., a plasterer-painter from Avignon, working for the services of the historic buildings, Mr. Blanc, returned from his work on a scooter. He had one of his comrades on his vehicle.

Arriving in street J.-H. Fabre, he saw moving towards the North-East an object difficult to identify pass above his head.

A few moments later, he told us: "I saw a ball passing at low altitude, silently, at a speed which seemed, as much as I could appreciate for lack of reference mark for the distances, about four times that of a jet. The ball released a kind of flame, spindle-shaped, of green and red color, long about twice its diameter."

SAUCERS (continued)

Above the Vieux-Port, a luminous spherical object leaving a bright trail was seen around 6 p.m. yesterday by several people.

A luminous cigar was seen in Mallemort (Bouches-du-Rhône) by multiple witnesses. A "red ball" also swirled above Arles before disappearing in the direction of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.

Exploding in midair above Graulhet (Tarn), a saucer reportedly disintegrated before the eyes of Mr. Jean Carcenac, 43, who was observing the phenomenon through binoculars. Debris from the object (silver filaments clumped together that break on contact) was collected by the gendarmerie, which opened an investigation.

A disc with 12 portholes was seen in Besse-sur-Braye (Sarthe). In the same department, a garage owner from Coulaires and a driver from Allennes saw a disc spinning in the sky.

Near Trappes, a driver, Mr. Richard Baudens, living in Adaimville (Seine-et-Oise), saw a fixed red light whose brightness gradually increased. The witness, a former pilot (4,000 flight hours), observed the craft as it moved from right to left and up and down for 20 minutes.

A weather balloon intrigued residents of the Hautes-Alpes all afternoon yesterday, who mistook it for a flying saucer. It was actually a stratospheric balloon carrying scientific equipment for the study of cosmic rays, launched from Milan.

A "blinding flame" was seen by Mr. Corre, a professor in Bourg (Ain), and other residents of the region. Additionally, a "cigar" was seen in Nantua, in Bellegarde, and in Romans.

On the railway line, at the location Saint-Pierre-Halte, near Saint-Omer, a shiny yellow object reportedly landed, 2 meters high.

A fiery egg was seen by a traveling salesman driving between Niffer and Kembs (Haut-Rhin).

A farmer from Angles (Vendée) saw a craft that changed shape and color as it moved forward. When the witness tried to approach the object, it emitted beams of light forming a screen behind which it silently vanished.

A small being in a shiny suit was seen in the Mamora Forest by a French engineer from Meknès. The "Martian" moved toward a craft parked by the roadside, which then took off at high speed.

Fifteen workers from the military supply depot in Casablanca saw an elongated, orange-white object that, for a minute, descended over the city like a falling leaf before suddenly changing direction and vanishing quickly on the horizon.

No flying saucer in Vaucluse: the Secretariat of State for the Armed Forces (Air) clarified that, contrary to some reports, the two pilots from the Orange airbase who flew over Fontaine-de-Vaucluse on the afternoon of October 14 at various altitudes observed no unknown object during their investigation. The two pilots are experienced officers and their report is conclusive.