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The 1954 French flap in the Press:

The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Dépêche du Midi, France, on October 6, 1954.

Case file here.

Albi. -- Since we've been talking about it for so long, we had to see them! Yesterday, around 3 p.m., two Albi residents, Mrs. Cadars and Mr. Rouch, noticed the presence of a flying saucer in the sky above our town on the old road in Cordes.

They are not the only ones in this case. Mr. Rouch's wife, for example, had, from a different place, but at the same time, noticed the same phenomenon.

Here is how Mr. Rouch described the saucer he saw: "It looked, from a distance, like an apple. It grew rapidly and seemed to me to have a diameter of two meters. It left in its wake a whitish trail that remained in the sky long after the disappearance of the craft. Mrs. Cadars and I suddenly lost sight of the saucer, because it described a curve on the horizon and seemed to fall abruptly..."

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