This article was published in the daily newspaper Le Provençal, France, page 1, on October 4, 1954.
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Alès (C.P.).
Saturday evening, around 8 p.m., people worthy of faith saw what from now on is allowed to be called flying saucers or flying cigars.
The mysterious machine moved in the sky of Favède, at 3 km of the mining city of Grand-Combe.
Among the eyewitnesses, wenote Mr. Germain Soustelle, mayor and general adviser of Large-Combe, Misters Andrieux, Vincenti and widowed Mrs. Favède, etc...
M. Soustelle told us about this:
"This apparatus, that we could see evolving during 10 good minutes, initially appeared to have the shape of a long cigar; it went down finally towards the high mountains from Lamelouze, on the left of the village of Ruffière, at the locality "les Drayes". It then had the appearance of a large ball surrounded by a luminous halation.
Saint-Brieux (A.F.P.).
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Brest (A.F.P.).
Mrs. Henry, farmer in Guesnou (Finistère), claimed to have seen Thursday, then Friday evening at the same hour, in the sky, a purple cylindrical machine which moved without noise from West to East.
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Lille (A.F.P.).
Mr. Anicet Corneille, farm labourer, stated to have seen, Saturday evening, in Comines, a machine having the shape of a cigar from 8 to 10 meters in width, which evolved at forty meters of height and released a sharp blue gleam, after having flown over the city during a few seconds, the machine is said to have disappeared in the sky.
The declarations of Mr. Corneille were confirmed by a motorist tourquennois passing in Comines.