The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Télégramme de Brest, Brest, France, page 1, on October 15, 1954.
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Mr. Jean Marty, 42 years old, a mechanic living in Leguevin (Haute-Garonne), stated that on 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 was 2.5 meters high. It was orange in color. When Mr. Marty approached, the disc rose into the air silently, vertically, and disappeared at an astonishing speed. Mr. Marty went to the middle of the field to examine the spot where the object had landed. He found no traces but did discover two sheets of glossy white paper covered with printed letters lying on the grass.
Explanation of the "mystery"
Vietnamese people had a picnic there
The investigation, entrusted to Air Security, quickly revealed that the sheets simply came from a brochure published by the services of Prince Buu Loc and had probably been left in Leguevin by Vietnamese people who had come there for a picnic.
Vietnamese students are particularly numerous in Toulouse, and Leguevin, located about twenty kilometers away and near the wooded areas of Gers, is a popular getaway spot for people from Toulouse.
The document's text was harmless: it merely mentioned the arrival of ships in Indochinese ports and fish shipments.
Hairy Martian or a long-haired coat?
Two other witnesses "saw" a flying saucer passenger. The first, Mr. Olivier, owner of the Javel Neto establishments in Toulouse, was accompanied by an employee, Mr. Perano, and a young boy of about fifteen. All three saw a luminous, reddish, spherical-shaped craft land. Then they saw a figure approaching them, whose suit, according to the witnesses, shone like glass. Its eyes were enormous. It left just as it had arrived. The traveler who encountered Mr. Laugère, a railway employee in Montluçon, was more talkative.
Mr. Laugère was crossing the tracks near the SNCF bridge when he saw a metallic craft landed a short distance from a diesel fuel reservoir used for railcars. Next to the craft, which was torpedo-shaped and about four meters long, stood a man completely covered in hair - or perhaps wearing a long-haired coat.
Nîmes, 14th. - Several hunters from the commune of Saint-Ambroix (Gard) reported seeing seven tiny beings whose shape vaguely resembled that of a human body. When they tried to approach, the dwarfs rushed toward a glowing craft, which immediately took off.
At the spot where the pilots of the flying saucer had been, the hunters found a number of strange-looking seeds on the ground. When they had the seeds examined by seed specialists, the experts were unable to classify them into any known species.
