The 1954 French flap:

IN THE REGION

Saucers over the Côtes-du-Nord

A farmer spots a mysterious craft in his yard

Dinan, from our editorial staff.

Several residents of Trégon, whose good faith cannot be questioned, state that on Saturday evening, around 9:30 p.m., in the northwestern part of the sky, they saw a luminous object, yellow-red in color, shaped like an old dirigible balloon, hovering motionless in the sky and appearing to be 3 to 4 meters in length. After several minutes, the craft rose silently and quickly disappeared toward the north.

Another sighting occurred Saturday evening in Megrit, near Jugon, around 11:30 p.m. Only a young 23-year-old farmer, Mr. Henri Le Hérissé, witnessed it. As he was leaving his home to check on his horses in the stable, he suddenly saw in front of him, in the southwest direction, between his shed at the back of the yard and a haystack, a luminous, oval-shaped craft, about 2 meters at its largest dimension. The object hovered motionless at approximately 50 meters in height. After observing it for about two minutes, Mr. Le Hérissé clearly distinguished a dark, human-like shape inside, which appeared to be about 80 centimeters tall.

Returning to his bedridden wife, he told her what he had just seen and said he was going to alert his neighbor, Mr. Le Texier. Before calling him, the farmer cast another glance toward the saucer... for without a doubt, it was indeed a saucer. It had descended and was now only 4 meters above the ground.

On board, the farmer this time clearly saw two human-like figures standing motionless. Frightened, he ran back into the farmhouse where he quickly barricaded himself, turning off all the lights. Remaining under the influence of fear for a long time, he did not dare return to the yard to observe the saucer again and therefore did not know what became of it.

Another craft above the Guildo

Last Saturday, around 8:15 p.m., as usual, Mr. Jean Bonnenfant, 70, retired, living at Le Tertre Jannoux, went out into the small garden to close the doors. Back on the porch, lingering briefly, his daughter asked him whether he was waiting for a "flying saucer." She had barely finished speaking when Mr. Bonnenfant and his family members saw, in the southwest direction, first a faint white light giving the impression of being very far away, then growing larger into an "oval" shape and taking on a red-blue hue like a flame. The phenomenon lasted a good minute. Mr. Jean Bonnenfant, a former signalman, witnessed many fires during his career but states he had never seen anything similar. It was most likely a "cigar or flying saucer."

A worker from Saint-Brieuc sees a strange glow in the sky

Returning home Monday evening from work, Mr. Ernest Dequercadec, 23, a garage worker in St. Brieuc living in the town of Trégueux, suddenly saw in the sky, while near the place called "l'Ourme," a strange glow approaching him. Frightened, he turned around and entered a café where several patrons, after hearing his account, went outside and in turn saw the glow fairly high in the sky for about an hour and a half.

Mr. Dequercadec was so frightened that he had to be escorted home and remained in bed for part of Tuesday.

The day before already, in the Villages district, several trustworthy individuals had seen a glow stretching out in the shape of a cigar.