The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Télégramme de Brest, Brest, France, pages 1 and , on October 15, 1954.
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Paris, 14. -- IF THE TESTIMONIES GIVEN ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS, AND THE ASSUMPTIONS MADE BY SO-CALLED "AUTHORIZED" PERSONS INSPIRE SOME WITH CONCERN, THEY MIGHT FIND COMFORT IN THE COMPLETE CONTRADICTION BETWEEN THESE CLAIMS.
HERE IS THE THEORY OF A PROMINENT GERMAN SCIENTIST, PROF. HERMANN OBERTH, INVENTOR AND DESIGNER OF THE "V-2" ROCKET. IT IS NO EXAGGERATION TO SAY THAT NONE IS MORE EXTRAVAGANT.
"THE PILOTS OF THE 'FLYING SAUCERS' ARE INTELLIGENT PLANTS," SAID PROF. OBERTH.
According to the German scientist, the "uranides" (as he names these plants) are thousands of years ahead of humans in both spiritual development and technology. The home planet of the uranides would be one where no gaseous oxygen exists, thus prohibiting the development of animal life. Living beings extract the oxygen they need from oxides in the soil, and this is why they can only be plants.
This planet would be located outside the solar system, but the mysterious craft in which these intelligent plants travel could move at a speed close to that of light (300,000 kilometers per second).
The crafts seen above Earth would be tasked with monitoring humanity’s progress in atomic science, as such progress "poses a threat to the entire cosmos."
That’s for the theories. As for the testimonies, the most sensational one does not, at all, align with the German professor’s speculations.
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It is known that an investigation was launched by military authorities following reports that soldiers operating a spotlight installed at the Metz fair had seen a mysterious luminous circle on Sunday evening. The military government issued a statement declaring that "there is no reason to take these reports into account in this particular case."
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Mr. Jean Marty, 42 years old, a mechanic living in Leguevin (Haute-Garonne), stated that during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, he saw a luminous disc land in the middle of a field. The disc measured between 6 and 7 meters in diameter and 2.5 meters in height. It was orange in color. When Mr. Marty approached, the disc rose into the air, silently, vertically, and disappeared at tremendous speed. Mr. Marty went to the middle of the field to examine the spot where the craft had landed. He found no traces but did find two glossy white sheets of paper with printed letters lying on the grass.
The investigation, entrusted to air safety authorities, quickly revealed that the papers were simply pages from a brochure published by the services of Prince Buu Loc, likely left behind in Leguevin by Vietnamese individuals who had picnicked there.
Vietnamese students are particularly numerous in Toulouse, and Leguevin, located about twenty kilometers away and near the wooded areas of Gers, is a popular excursion destination for Toulousans.
The document’s text is harmless: it discusses the entry of ships into Indochinese ports and fish deliveries.
Two other witnesses “saw” a saucer passenger. The first, Mr. Olivier, owner of the Javel Neto company in Toulouse, was accompanied by an employee, Mr. Perano, and a young boy about fifteen years old. All three saw a luminous, spherical, reddish craft land. Then they saw a figure approaching them whose suit, according to the witnesses, shone like glass. Its eyes were enormous. It left the way it came. The visitor who encountered Mr. Laugère, a railway worker in Montluçon, was more communicative.
Mr. Laugère was crossing the tracks near the S.N.C.F. bridge when he saw a metallic craft a short distance from a diesel fuel tank used for railcars. Next to the device, which was torpedo-shaped and about four meters long, stood a man entirely covered in hair — unless he was wearing a coat with somewhat long hair.
Nîmes, 14. -- SEVERAL HUNTERS FROM THE TOWN OF SAINT-AMBROIX (GARD) SAW SEVEN TINY BEINGS WHOSE SHAPE VAGUELY RESEMBLED THAT OF A HUMAN BODY. WHEN THEY TRIED TO APPROACH, THE DWARFS RUSHED TOWARD A PHOSPHORESCENT CRAFT, WHICH IMMEDIATELY TOOK OFF.
AT THE SPOT WHERE THE FLYING SAUCER'S OCCUPANTS HAD STOOD, THE HUNTERS FOUND A NUMBER OF STRANGE-LOOKING SEEDS ON THE GROUND, WHICH THEY HAD ANALYZED BY SEED EXPERTS. THE LATTER WERE UNABLE TO CLASSIFY THEM IN ANY KNOWN SPECIES.
