The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Berry Républicain, Bourges, France, pages 1 and 8, on October 26, 1954.
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Craft observed in Czechoslovakia, as well as in Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, and Italy
Vienna, October 25. -- Prague radio reports that flying saucers have been seen over Czechoslovakian territory.
The broadcast specifies that in some areas, loud detonations were heard and that the population has been asked to report all observations to the meteorological station located in the Tatra Mountains.
Belgrade, October 25. -- Flying saucers have appeared in the Yugoslavian sky in the form of "flying spheres."
The newspaper "Vercernje Novosti" reports that early this morning, "large flying spheres leaving a fluorescent green trail" were seen over Zagreb, Belgrade, and several other locations.
Also today, around 6 a.m., Belgrade residents observed "strange objects" at very high altitude.
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The Hague, October 25. -- After a long absence, the saucers are once again streaking across the skies of the Netherlands. Witnesses have reported sightings of saucers, cigars, and flying spheres, particularly in the northeast of the country. According to them, these objects were moving at high speed toward the west.
Rome, October 25. -- Numerous flying discs and cigars were once again seen today in various parts of the Italian sky.
In the Spoleto region, several people witnessed the appearance of a luminous sphere of dark red color, preceded by an intense bluish light. It moved at dizzying speed and disappeared behind the Trevi mountains.
In Siena, workers claim to have seen a flying disc moving very quickly from north to south, leaving behind a luminous trail. In Trieste, a group of 20 people witnessed the appearance of a mysterious object at a very high altitude.
Professor Bruna de Cewrce, from Catanzaro in Calabria, stated that he saw in the sky an object consisting of a central core, extended by a curved tail, colored in red and green. Other residents of Catanzaro reported witnessing the same phenomenon.
Finally, a flying cigar was seen in the sky over Ostia.
Vienna, October 25. -- Today, in Austria, thousands of people saw mysterious craft crossing the sky over Vienna, Graz, and Burgenland, Austria’s eastern province.
The Vienna meteorological station stated that the "saucer" seen over the capital was not a weather balloon but an object ending in a plume of flames, flying at an extraordinary speed from west to east without making the slightest noise. Over Graz, witnesses described a green-blue sphere with a pointed tail at the rear, flying at an altitude of 3,000 to 4,000 meters. The same craft was observed by numerous witnesses over the towns of Judenburg and Wildon in Styria.
Finally, in Burgenland, according to spectators, the flying saucers appeared as a blue-red sphere, flying horizontally and silently in the direction of Hungary.
