The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Berry Républicain, Bourges, France, pages 1 and 10, on October 23, 1954.
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Paris, October 22. -- A motorist from Cherbonnières (Charente-Maritime) was driving on the road to Souzou with his three-year-old son when he began to feel tingling sensations all over his body, similar to electric shocks, which intensified as the car moved forward. The child, feeling the same discomfort, began to cry. Soon, the car's engine stalled and the headlights went out.
At the same moment, a bright glow shifted from bright red to orange. Though blinded, the driver was still able to make out a motionless object in the sky for a few moments before it soon disappeared. Immediately afterward, the driver was able to restart the engine of his car.
On national highway 393, near Turquestein (Moselle), the engine of a truck was suddenly stopped by a "luminous apparition." The driver, Mr. Schonbrenner, found his hands stuck to the wheel as if paralyzed, and saw a sort of cone with a phosphorescent base and a yellow-orange tip.
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Mr. Shonbrenner stated that he had felt a sensation of heat, as others have in similar circumstances.
Melun, October 22. -- Numerous witnesses, residents of the regions of Bray-sur-Seine, Lagny, Moret, and Thomery, reported seeing a strange phenomenon at nightfall: an oval-shaped object, yellow-orange in color, over 20 meters in size, at an altitude of 300 to 400 meters. Clarification: the 20 meters is the estimated actual size of the object, not just how it appeared to the observers.
The object remained stationary for some time, then vanished at a dizzying speed.
One of the witnesses, Mr. André L..., a meteorological specialist living in Thomery (S.-et-M.), estimated the speed of the object to be around 10,000 km/h, quite simply. Mr. L... stated:
"I am absolutely certain, since I know this field well, that it was neither an airplane nor a weather balloon."
In Melun, several young women leaving a class claimed to have seen in the sky a similar object, which, after remaining still for about ten minutes, rose very rapidly into the sky.
Meanwhile, a luminous orb resembling a car headlight reportedly appeared six times to two industrialists from Melun driving on the Melun-Rubelles national road. Each appearance of the light source was said to produce a large flash that lit up the region.
Finally, several riders from a riding center in La Rochette claimed to have seen a figure fleeing their park. "He was strange," they said. "It could only have been a Martian."
La Tour-du-Pin, October 22. -- In recent days, motorists claimed to have seen in the region of Morestel (Isère) a mysterious object that seemed to have landed near that locality.
The next morning, a farmer discovered a strange device in a field. To his surprise, the device was emitting an intermittent light.
It turned out to be a weather balloon with recording instruments, which included bulbs whose lights apparently change under certain temperature conditions.
The farmer sent the balloon and its equipment to the address listed on the attached label, namely the Trappes Observatory (Seine-et-Oise).
It was likely the same luminous "saucer" seen the night before by motorists.
