The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Liberté du Morbihan, Lorient, France, pages 1 and 10, on October 15, 1954.
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TOULOUSE. -- Mr. Jean Marty, 42 years old, a mechanic living in Leguevin (Haute-Garonne), stated that he saw, during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, a luminous disc land in the middle of a field. The disc measured between 6 and 7 meters and was 2.5 meters high. It was orange in color.
Mr. Marty was working around 10:30 PM in his workshop located across from a field. Looking up, he spotted the luminous object. Intrigued, he went outside and approached the disc, which then rose silently into the air vertically and disappeared at an incredible speed.
Mr. Marty went to the middle of the field hoping to find traces, but saw absolutely nothing except two typewritten sheets which he picked up. These white sheets were covered with printed letters; they were of commercial-size format and were neither damp nor crumpled.
Mr. Marty handed them over to the police, who will have them examined by a translator.
Previously, Mr. Marty had given the sheets to a local resident, Mr. Maggy, who had spent many years in Indochina. He managed to translate them, albeit very imperfectly—
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perfectly as being in the Quoc-Nu language, an Annamite dialect, and the recent text dealt with matters concerning the Viet Minh and Viet Nam.
A small-sized diver with a head large in proportion to the body, and enormous eyes — that is the description given last night by a Toulouse resident, Mr. Ollivier, of a mysterious figure who came down from a spherical craft that had just landed at 7:35 PM on a vacant lot.
Mr. Ollivier, owner of the Javel Neto establishments on Rue des Fontaines in Toulouse, was accompanied by an employee, Mr. Perano, and a young boy of about fifteen.
All three saw the reddish-colored spherical craft land.
Shortly afterward, about a minute later, the diver approached the glowing sphere, which then rose vertically without a sound at very high speed into the sky, leaving a trail of fire behind it.
Later, Mr. Ollivier, an aviation pilot, drew the diver in chalk on a door in a striking manner: "I didn’t believe in it," added Mr. Ollivier, "but I saw it as clearly as I see you now; it was quite a shock."
A 13-year-old boy, young Gilbert Lelay, claims to have seen a mysterious craft around 10:30 PM in a meadow about 500 meters from his parents' home in the village of Sainte-Marie in Erbray, near Châteaubriant.
The child says he spent ten minutes observing, from about ten meters away, the craft, which had the shape of a phosphorescent cigar. A passenger, a man dressed in a suit and gray hat, wearing boots, allegedly said to him in French: "Look, but don't touch." He placed one hand on the boy’s shoulder while holding a ball emitting violet lights in the other. He then climbed into the craft through a door which he slammed shut. On what appeared to be a control panel, there were several multicolored buttons.
Still according to the child, the craft rose slowly into the air vertically, shooting lights in all directions, circled twice in the sky, and suddenly disappeared.
