This article was published in the regional daily newspaper Nice-Matin, France, on Saturday, October 16, page 4.
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One of them is said to have landed thursday at the fall of night, on the road to BIOT and is said to have taken off at the approch of a ciclyst...
Almost at the same time, a similar machine (the same one undoubtedly) was seen above Grasse, Saint Raphael, Opio, Gourdon, Bar-sur-Loup and Roquebrune-Cape-Martin.
On an improvized drawing board, José Cassella traces the shape of the saucer landed on the ground (drawing on the bottom), its shape seen from underneath (in the center) and its takeoff trajectory which he is pointing at. (Photo Biondo-Catch)
Now the "saucers" make their appearance in our sky, if one believes the very large number of testimonies - sometimes contradictory - about them that one can read below.
We will restrict ourselves to record them, we will not conclude in the "hot" debate which oppose the "pro-saucers" and the "anti-saucers."
Yesterday morning, in Biot on the place of the arcades, all the village spoke only saucers and appearances and, already, the two clans, now inevitable in such a case, were formed.
Indeed, in the current of the afternoon, our correspondent in Antibes had discovered, thanks to the complicity of his chief of service, Mr. Courbey, tax collector of Antibes, the eyewitness of this adventure who disturbed since Thursday evening the quietness of the village of Biot and its inhabitants.
Because, if in Biot the witnesses are numerous, who have seen a craft evolving in the air, at 06:15 P.M., only one had the chance to see it at the time of the "takeoff" whereas he was returning from work.
José Cassella is a 19 year old boy, native of Biot and remaining there with his parents, in street of the poissonerie, his father working with the Water-company of the city. Every day, morning and evening, he goes down the road from Antibes to Biot to go to his workin place, at the Town Receipt, boulevard of Aguillon in Antibes.
The event did not disturb the accounting department and when we entered in the buildings of the receipt yesterday afternoon, everyone was busy with his daily work. As for as of José Cassella, when we indicated the purpose of our visit, he did not even raise the head. However, after having refused to utter his name, refused even the least indication, of fear of "ridiculizing rumours" on behalf of his fellow-citizens, we led him to some confidences, then to a complete description of the craft, or, at least, of what it had had the time to see.
"So it was thus 06:15 P.M. I drove towards the village and I was going to take the turn of the road of Biot, at the chemin Neuf ["New driveway"], skirting the wall enclosing the old property of the sculptor Bourayne. Suddenly, I was face to face with an oval shaped mass, of aluminium color... and instinctively, as I would have done in front of any other object or vehicle barring me the road, I slowed down."
"A this precise moment, without a noise, but with an indefinable speed, the saucer - for I had to admit it, what I had just seen is one of those - the saucer rose vertically, then disappeared in the sky."
"I was then within six meters and I perfectly distinguished the circular shape of the object, of which the higher part was slightly reinflated, while the lower part resting on the ground was the shape of a half-sphere. I din not see anything else, no asperity, no porthole, the object was completely smooth and shone under the last luminous rays."
"Based on the width of the road, the machine may have had 5 to 6 meters in diameter and a little more than a one meter height."
"After its departure, no trace could be found on the road and when I returned from the village a little later nothing could let anyone find out that a flying saucer had landed there."
