The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Provençal, France, page 12, on October 22, 1954.
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Brazzaville (A.P)
Flying saucers, if we are to believe the accounts of eyewitnesses, have particularly haunted the skies of Equatorial Africa in recent days. Their last manifestation dates back to October 19 and was reported simultaneously from Brazzaville, Leopoldville and Pointe-Noire.
In Leopoldville, capital of the Belgian Congo, witnesses report having seen "a brilliant round object which was escorted by two flying saucers and was heading west towards Pointe-Noire".
This flying saucer squadron was, according to reports reaching Brazzaville, seen at 6:45 p.m.; in Leopoldville, at 7 p.m.; in Brazzaville at 7 p.m. and in Pointe-Noire at 8 p.m.
This flowering of flying saucers in the sky claimed two victims: two French soldiers were reportedly subject to disciplinary sanctions for having spread false stories of flying saucers.
