The article below was published in the daily newspaper Paris-Presse, France, page 5, on October 2, 1954.
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If it is true, as the disciples of the "Christ of Montfavet" claim, that flying saucers are a divine manifestation, then yesterday there were enough of them in the skies of France to "halo" all the apostles of this postman-Messiah. And enough cigars to supply Mr. Churchill for fifteen days.
The most sensational story is the one told by young Raymond Romand, a 12-year-old boy whose parents are farmers in Premanon, in the Jura. He saw, the other evening, a flying saucer right in the middle of the farmyard.
It was eight o'clock in the evening; the child had gone outside after hearing the dog barking furiously. The saucer was there, two meters high. He threw stones at it and approached. At that moment, it began to move, and the blast lifted him off the ground. Terrified, he ran away. His sister, little Jeanine (9 years old), claims she also saw the saucer from the window.
"I saw ghosts," she was to tell her school friends the next day.
The two children swear they had never heard of flying saucers before.
"The 'thing' was resting on three legs," Raymond specified.
He wanted to show the gendarmes the marks that the three legs had left on the ground in the yard. Unfortunately, the rain had erased them...
In Foussinargues, near Bessèges, in the Gard, two people claim they saw in a meadow "a bright red luminous craft, surrounded by vertical rods."
Near Mulhouse, a cigar wandered through the sky, followed by a 'litter' of twelve cigarillos.
The son of the rural policeman of Langeron, in the Nivernais, saw only a single cigar. It was equipped with a "rear light." This seems to indicate that the Martians have an air police.
Two thousand residents of Pau saw, yesterday afternoon, a cigar and two saucers, one white, the other green. They were a bit disappointed to learn in the evening that the cigar was a jet plane and the two saucers were children's balloons...
