The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Courrier de Saône-et-Loire, France, page 3, on October 22, 1954.
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"Flying saucers" are the topic of the day. It's quite rare to see two people meet without talking about them.
They are seen in all shapes: cigars, chamber pots, bells, melons, etc... Everyone tries to come up with a new shape, unlike anything previously seen.
In Nanton, and in Etrigny as well, honest housewives going about their usual chores believed they saw strange objects in the sky, kinds of spinning tops that, like meteors, appeared and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
People are speculating endlessly about what these appearances could mean, and some do not hesitate to call them visions.
They say that in Balleure, a wagon axle was seen flying, which, after a short journey around the area, returned to land at its point of origin. Fortunately, no one was underneath to catch it on their head...
