The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Courrier de Saône-et-Loire, France, page 2, on October 18, 1954.
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The day before yesterday, at nightfall, in a clear sky, a very bright red-orange disc could be seen fairly low on the horizon, rising slowly behind a grove of poplars. A middle-aged couple, intrigued by the phenomenon, alerted their neighbors on Rue du Guidon, who hurried down to the riverbanks to witness the flying saucer, which had undoubtedly come to survey the topography of the Bresse plains.
However, one observer, an amateur astronomer, remarked: "Don't you see that it's just the moon rising?"
Indeed, it was nothing more than Earth's satellite, whose disc, as it ascended in the sky, shrank and turned white, gradually losing its colorful glow.
How many people, caught up in the collective hysteria currently unsettling minds, mistake the moon for a flying saucer!
