UFOs in the daily Press:

A farmer from the Corrèze:

"I kissed a helmeted Martian who was coming down from a flying cigar"

USSEL, September 14. If an Amiens citizen "saw" the passengers of a flying saucer, a farmer of Bugeat (Corrèze) "chatted" with the pilot of a "flying cigar".

Mr. Antoine Mazaud says that Friday evening when he came home from work, he met an unknown man wearing a helmet on a path. This character spoke to him in unintelligible language after having friendly shaken his hand and giving him a hug... The stranger then climbed into a cigar-shaped craft, three to four meters long which, taking off vertically, set off towards the west, without making more noise than a bee.

- The machine was not lit, said Mr. Mazaud.

The "Martian", according to him, was of normal size.

The farmer, he said, only told the story to his wife. But she told a neighbor who repeated it to the village merchants. "And that's how the whole country found out." The lieutenant of the gendarmerie questioned the farmer and then went to the place to look for traces of the saucer... or the cigar.

He couldn't find anything. But the adventure of Mr. Mazaud singularly recalls that of the two Canadian women who about a month ago made conversation with an amiable Martian who left them after ten minutes to fly aboard his saucer. One learned three days later that the saucer was an American helicopter whose pilot had wanted to have fun at the expense of the two walkers.

However, one wonders if this flap of saucers across France is not a collective hallucination.