The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Télégramme de Brest, Brest, France, page 2, on August 27, 1954.
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Oslo, 26 (U.P.). -- The major general of the Norwegian Air Force suggested yesterday a hypothesis to explain the encounter of two young Norwegian women at Mosjøen with a "man from space" who, after getting back into his flying saucer before their eyes, disappeared with his craft into the skies.
The general believes it must have been an American helicopter, currently taking part in maneuvers in northern Norway.
The pilot, he said, might have been in a joking mood. The overactive imagination of two young ladies fed on pseudo-scientific fiction would have done the rest.
The general was not mistaken: the "Martian" was found. His name is Bailey Faurot. He admitted that, as an American aviator stationed in Germany and passing through Norway, he had landed aboard a Sikorsky-type helicopter, met the two women, and, faced with their evident gullibility, could not resist the pleasure of playing a trick on them.
