The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, on page 11, on October 17, 1954.
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PARIS -- (Reuters) -- A "flying saucer" pilot Thursday night was reported to have tried to refuel his 12-foot-long "torpedo" machine at the expense of the French state railroad.
A railwayman at Montlucon station, central France, said he saw the pilot and his machine outside an oil tank there.
He asked he man covered with hair or wearing a long hairy overcoat, what he wanted. The man said something like gasoil."
The workman started off to report to the stationmaster, but the machine took off.
