The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Berry Républicain, Bourges, France, pages 1 and 8, on September 30, 1954.
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Lyon, September 29. -- In the departments of Rhône, Isère, Drôme, and Savoie, many people claim to have recently seen, with varying clarity, craft shaped either like cigars or disks.
In the region of L'Arbresle, one witness, the director of a Parisian music hall, even declared that he had filmed one of these mysterious devices, which was flying at an altitude he estimated to be around 700 meters. Once the film is developed, it will be possible to determine whether or not it was an optical illusion.
Near Feyzin (Isère), a young man reportedly saw in the countryside, close to the ground, a craft in the shape of a dome from which a very bright light was emitted. The witness compared it to the light produced by burning magnesium. The craft suddenly ascended vertically, leaving behind a shower of sparks, and disappeared.
In the Drôme, a resident of Valence, Mrs. L..., who was walking near Chabeuil, claims to have encountered on the path she was taking a small being so oddly dressed that she initially thought it was a scarecrow made of cellophane. The dog accompanying the woman barked furiously, overcome with fear. Mrs. L..., also terrified, hid behind a hedge.
It was then that she saw, rising from the cornfield bordering the path, a disk emitting a whistling sound. Shortly after, the witness and some local farmers went to the field where, according to them, a clearly visible circular trace about 3 meters in diameter could be seen, with flattened corn stalks and broken branches around the edges.
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Other residents of Chabeuil also stated that they saw, on that same day, a flying saucer maneuvering over the countryside.
Finally, in Savoie, near Lake Bourget, above Mount Revard, several motorists — a total of about fifteen people — simultaneously saw a craft shaped like a disk. It moved about for approximately four minutes, then suddenly disappeared.
One of the witnesses, a doctor from Chambéry, is a former artillery spotter. He carefully recorded his observations and drew a diagram reproducing the trajectory of the mysterious craft.
Stockholm, September 20 — A luminous sphere, which left a fiery trail behind it, was photographed last night in Bjuv, in southeastern Sweden. The object, which was moving northward, reportedly flew rapidly, "as high," the witness said, "as a jet plane, but without making any noise."
At the Lund observatory, it was stated that no meteor was observed at the time when the witness captured the phenomenon with a telephoto lens.
