This article was published in the daily newspaper The Derby Telegraph, Derby, Eire, October 14, 1954.
Note: my file on this case here.
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A "FLYING SAUCER" pilot was last night reported to have tried to refuel his 12-foot long torpedo-shaped machine at the expense of the French Railways.
M. Laugere, a railwayman, who works at Montlucan [sic, Montluçon] Station, Central France, said he saw the pilot and its machine outside a diesel oil store there.
HAIRY COAT?
He asked the man, who was either covered with hair or wearing a long hairy overcoat, what he wanted. The man said something M. Laugere could not make out, but he thought he heard the word "gasoil."
M. Laugere started off to report to the stationmaster, but before he had gone yards the machine took off and vanished.
This is the latest report in a spate of French accounts of mysterious flying objects -- saucers, bells, mushrooms and other shapes.
