The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Croix du Nord, Lille, Pas-de-Calais, France, page 8, October 12, 1954.
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Egypt in its turn enters the competition of flying saucers. At the beginning of Saturday night, several hundred residents of Alexandria reported the presence in the sky of a luminous object which seemed to change from red to orange, then to green and gray.
The deputy director of the observatory, Mr. Aroub Ismaïl, however told the Press that it could be an aurora borealis. A magnetic storm had been observed for 48 hours.
In Beirut the newspaper "L'Orient" reports a statement by Mr. Max Favell, representative in Beirut of a German firm, who claims to have seen Saturday at 10:15 p.m. (loc) at the seaside a craft hovering in the sky which emitted a whitish light.
Mr. Favell clarified that the spacecraft which was a few meters from the ground landed for a few seconds then took off vertically while turning on itself to soon disappear in the sky. The witness did not notice any trace on the ground at the place of landing of the craft.
Several reliable people claim to have witnessed the flight of a "mushroom" on Sunday evening.
These are Colonel Cauvin, director of hygiene and prophylaxis of Cameroon, Doctor Menu, chief doctor of the hospital in Yaoundé, Mr. Dumont, director of the security services of Cameroon, Poilleux, counselor of the territorial assembly of Cameroon, Moreau, administrator, deputy mayor of Yaoundé, and their wives.
All these people, gathered at the head doctor of the hospital's, were preparing to go to the movies, when they were intrigued by the attitude of the house dog who suddenly began to growl and bristle his hair. Thinking that prowlers were wandering around his house, Doctor Menu went outside and saw a bright object in the sky. He immediately called his guests, who all later declared that they had seen almost vertically from the plate where the hospital is located, a huge disc, violently illuminated, motionless at an altitude of about 600 meters.
This appearance lasted fifteen seconds. The craft was very exactly in the shape of a mushroom, whose people could not exactly assess the diameter, under which very slightly swayed a cylinder with a length equal to the diameter of the hat and also very bright...
Suddenly, the saucer took the direction of the East and its volume seemed to decrease visibly. Then it stopped for a few seconds before quickly gaining altitude and disappearing.
A flying saucer was observed for about two minutes by 13 members of a gliding school above the aerodrome of Ockstadt, near Frankfurt.
The thirteen pilots and student pilots were watching the progress of a monitor when they saw appearing above the glider in flight, at an altitude of about three thousand meters, "a slightly swollen silver disc" which moved without the slightest noise. The witnesses, including several former Luftwaffe aviators, are formal to declare that they cannot have been the victim of an optical illusion.
Mr. Roger Barrault, laborer at Lavoux (Vienne) said that riding a bicycle on Saturday around 7 p.m. he had been suddenly stopped by a double beam of light emanating from a kind of "diver" barely 1.50 meters with boots without heels, very bright eyes and a strong mustache.
Also, saucers, cigars, pots, discs and other flying objects are reported in Uzerche (Corrèze), Carcassonne, Saint Laurent-les-Mâcon, Tourriers (near Angoulême), La Ferté-Macé and Tesse-la-Madeleine.
