The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Télégramme de Brest et de l'Ouest, Brest, France, page 5, on October 26, 1954.
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A flying saucer honored the town by flying over it on Thursday around 7:30 p.m. Let's give the floor to the mother and daughter - who wished to remain anonymous but whose statements cannot be doubted - impressed witnesses of the phenomenon observed in the sky of Kerhuon.
- We were returning from Brest and had gotten off the bus at Kerjean. We were then walking towards Kerhuon. The sky was dark, without a single star, when we saw, appearing to our left at the horizon's edge, a glow of a beautiful orange color that moved at an extraordinary speed, horizontally, passed in front of us, and disappeared behind the hills of Plougastel.
"At first, it was just a glow, but as it approached - within only two or three seconds - this glow took the shape of a completely flat disk with very distinct contours, followed by a cone-shaped trail of the same color.
"From our perspective, the disk appeared slightly larger than the moon at its largest quarter and seemed to have flown over the town from north to south, above the Kerhuon area, at an altitude of about 5,000 meters.
"As it disappeared behind the town of Plougastel, we distinctly heard a very soft and steady humming sound - not a whistling - which seemed to be emitted by the disk, but which we only perceived a few seconds after it had passed in front of us.
"This is, after all, how one hears the noise of a jet engine some time after the aircraft has passed."
"This sighting, followed by the sound of an engine, intrigued my daughter and me, and since then, we believe in flying saucers."
