The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Croix, France, page 8, on October 22, 1954.
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Flying saucers seem to have been particularly attracted to Normandy in recent days. The sky over this region had turned into a display cabinet.
According to several people, from a brightly lit object resting in a field to the left of the road to Saint-Valéry-en-Caux, luminous discs were emerging, rapidly gaining altitude before returning to their point of departure.
A flying cigar performed the same maneuver.
Two other objects seen not far from the cliffs of Mer-les-Bains seemed to be exchanging signals with the first group. It should be added that the gendarmes who carried out an investigation on site found no trace of this mysterious carousel.
On Wednesday morning, around 3 a.m., Mr. Gaston Blanquère, residing in Oran, was returning with passengers in his car. Shortly after the village of Jean-Mermoz, the motorists' attention was drawn by a bright glow coming from the south, which rapidly increased in size. A luminous disc crossed the road above them, descended a few hundred meters further on, and appeared to make contact with the ground. The object was about the size of a small automobile. It consisted of an upper dome from which a yellow light emanated. The lower part of the disc emitted a bluish luminous spray. Very powerful beams of light swept across the plain.
Ten minutes later, the brightness diminished, and the object, gaining altitude, moved away rapidly and silently.
After a flying saucer alert was raised the other night in Momy, a small village in the Basses-Pyrénées, the men gathered and, armed with rifles and pitchforks, headed toward the mysterious object resting in a field.
The object, spherical in shape, was indeed there, emitting a faint yellow glow. But it was nothing more than a humble pumpkin, hollowed out by a prankster who had placed a lit candle inside...
