The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Républicain Lorrain, Metz, France, page 8, on September 28, 1954.
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Lisbon. -- Visitors from another world landed on September 24 at 10 a.m. in a location in the Gardunha Mountains, at the Spanish-Portuguese border: this was reported by the newspaper "Diario de Lisboa," according to a Portuguese peasant who, along with three of his companions, was working in the area.
"A sphere appeared in the sky to the east," the witness declared. "It flew at a dizzying speed and emitted multicolored flashes. It landed silently 200 meters from us, and two figures about 2.5 meters tall descended from it. They looked like men made of aluminum. These visitors first picked some plants and gathered stones, which they placed in a dazzlingly bright box. Then, noticing us, they approached and emitted some sounds.
Since we didn't understand, they gestured to invite us into their craft. When we refused, they returned to the machine, which took off vertically and disappeared southward as quickly as it had arrived."
The witness added that only the "poles" of the sphere rotated, while the equatorial part was transparent, allowing them to see moving shadows inside.
