The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Ambala Tribune, Ambala, India, page 9, on October 14, 1954.
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(From our London Office)
LONDON (By Air Mail). -- Fantastic stories of flying saucers and flying cigars come every day from France. Doctors and others, whose word can be trusted, say they have seen strange flying objects in the French skies.
According to a French farmer he saw an engine moving at great speed in the sky.
Another story is that a dozen men were seen coming out of it and doing a ballet.
At Rixheim two men say they saw a cigar-shaped engine surrounded by 12 satellite cigars.
A lorry driver claims to have seen a flying mushroom. He says he tried to approach it but he was stopped by a mysterious ray.
A member of he French national assembly has asked the Government to set up a commission to study "thus phenomenon objectively by extracting the truth from among the mistakes and possible hoaxes."
Meanwhile the police has received evidence that at least some French men have been scoffing their neighbours. They have already picked up two men for playing dangerous jokes. A retired miner made some hot air balloons three yards in diameter which he sent up with the aid of petrol saturated straw attached at the bottom. This let off a yellowish flare to the consternation of people who saw them at night. One of the balloons set fire to a haystack and the man was arrested. Another man spread the story that he had seen a flying cigar which had landed and made three holes in a field. The police, on investigation, found the holes had been made by the man himself.
