The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Gazette de Lausanne, Switzerland, on October 4, 1954.
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(c) Three children of a family living in an isolated farm in Prémanon (Jura) reported sighting a mysterious craft near the paternal home on Monday, September 27 at 8:30 p.m.
The children, a 12-year-old boy, an eight-year-old girl and a four-year-old girl, were perfectly normal, they did not go to the movies and did not read children's magazines publishing illustrated stories that might have influenced their imagination. Their statements were therefore recorded with the utmost seriousness and properly forwarded to the competent authorities.
The young boy said it was a metallic shape, an aluminum color, two meters high and one meter wide, which moved easily. He claimed to have thrown a stone on the craft, in contact with which it emitted a metallic sound. Then he says he also threw a wooden spike filled with rubber with his spring pistol. He then reportedly perceived a similar metallic sound but less intense. After that the craft reportedly advanced towards the child whom it would have struck and overthrown while uttering "grunts".
More emotional, the two girls fled into the barn. They claim to have seen the "shape" one meter from the front door. They hid cautiously in the hay.
Finally, the three children saw the "object" disappear, moving away in the sky leaving behind a reddish glow.
Is it an invasion of people from another planet? We publish this information with all the usual reservations, insisting however that the three young people were still not influenced by the appearance of similar apparatuses, belonging to an honorably known family who wishes to remain anonymous and consequently seeks no advertising effect.
