The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Impartial, Switzerland, on October 13, 1954.
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Flying saucers are decidedly not finished surprize us. So far the pilots of these celestial machines were hairy gnomes or unsightly giants who although polite did not give us a particularly encouraging vision of the Martian humanity.
A colonial teacher on leave in Oléron island (Charente-Maritime), Mr. Martin, has just discovered amiable representatives of a world that constantly rains down on us objects, for the less, unsightly. This happy mortal was therefore set the other day, in the presence of two pretty "Martian" girls wearing boots, jackets and leather gloves and shiny helmets. At the sight of these women from Mars and of martial looks, Mr. Martin stepped forward and held out gallantly his notebook and pen to get an autograph. Without any reluctance, they traced hieroglyphics commenting them volubly in an unknown language. Then the "Martians", measuring about 1 m. 70, bowed at the teacher and flew away aboard a saucer...
It is said that Mr. Martin carefully preserved this unique manuscript...
