The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Républicain Lorrain, Metz, France, page 9, on October 2, 1954.
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New "flying saucers" have been spotted in the skies of France over the past 24 hours. Here is the "catalogue."
PERPIGNAN. -- At the Mas de Bruzy, near Perpignan, several grape harvesters reported seeing a shiny object in the sky shaped like a saucer. After moving vertically while leaving a white trail, the object disappeared into the clouds.
MULHOUSE. -- Two people reported seeing a luminous object in the sky last night, in Rixheim. Using binoculars, they saw it had the shape of a long cigar. About a dozen small satellite "cigars" surrounded it. A railway worker on night duty also reported observing the same phenomenon.
BESSEGES. -- Two residents of the commune of Foussignargues, near Bessèges, reported seeing in a field near their house, during the night from Sunday to Monday, a bright red luminous object surrounded by vertical rods.
PAU. -- Many people saw a mysterious object at very high altitude in the sky, shaped like a long, shiny balloon. The object came from the south and was heading northwest.
NEVERS. -- Mr. Raymond Deloire, 20 years old, a farm worker in Langeron (Nièvre), who was riding his bicycle the other night along the road from Saint-Pierre-le-Moutiers, saw in the sky a mysterious half-spherical object emitting a bright orange glow from the front. Flames were shooting out from the back. The object moved silently at high speed toward the northeast.
