The 1954 French flap:

ONCE AGAIN
speaking of "flying saucers"

A "BROWN DISC"
WAS SEEN CROSSING
THE SKY IN THE WEST

ANGERS. -- On Tuesday, around 9 p.m., Miss Claire Cordier, a Red Cross nurse living in the center of Angers, saw a brown disc speeding across the sky as she was closing her shutters. The passage of this disc was accompanied by a bright green glow.

The young woman's testimony was confirmed by Mr. André Greffier, a hairdresser living on the same street, who also witnessed the phenomenon, which he believes to be a flying saucer.

A LUMINOUS CRAFT IN THE SKY OF THE SARTHOIS

LE MANS. -- In the sky over Sarthe, numerous people saw a strange object on Monday evening at dusk, at an altitude of about 1,000 meters. Coming from the south, the craft, which left behind a luminous trail, stopped for a few seconds before speeding off silently in a northeasterly direction.

"I SAW A FLYING SAUCER UP CLOSE," SAYS A CANADIAN SOLDIER

NORTH-DAY (Ontario). -- Aviator Henri Durcle stated that early Monday morning, just before dawn, he saw "a large incandescent ball" hovering motionless a few meters above a telegraph pole at the North-Day airbase.

The object, he said, had a circular shape on its upper part and featured a rectangular box in its lower section. Sparks, as dazzling as lightning, shot out in all directions from the mysterious ball.

Three other aviators corroborated Henri Durcle's statements.

FLYING SAUCERS IN ENGLAND...

RYE (England). -- W. G. Kitchener, a real estate agent in Rye and an aerial observer during World War II, declared that he saw two "flying saucers" yesterday afternoon. Traveling at a speed of about 3,000 km/h, they took only four seconds to cross the sky from one horizon to the other.

Two aircraft, which had a bulbous shape, were flying from the southwest toward London.

"The two craft," said Kitchener, "seemed to be chasing each other."