This article was published in the daily newspaper Var-Matin - République, France, on November 2, 1954.
The Hague, November 1. -- A flying saucer coming from Belgium landed in Limel close to Maastrich in the Krimbourg, during last night.
It is a small saucer without pilot approximately 80 cm in diameter, carrying a number plate "3 R-X - Mars" and of which the structure is of a simplicity that had the experts pouting.
It indeed is composed of a circle in wicker covered with silver foil and held in suspension in the air by four large kids' balloons. In a kind of gondola, attached to the circle of wicker, a flashlight of Belgian manufacture lights the saucer, giving to this machine a worrying apearance in the night.
Yssingeaux, November 1. -- a trader of Yssingeaux saw yesterday evening towards 9 p.m. in the sky, a large ball finished by a tail producing sparks. The apparatus was going down at a vertiginous pace, the observer believed that it was a plane falling in flames. But suddenly, it suspended its race, moved away and disappeared. The phenomenon had lasted 10 to 15 mn.
Inhabitants of Lezoux (the Puy de Dôme) saw Sunday an orange "crescent" moving without noise from the north-western direction towards the south-east. The phenomenon could be pbservé during half an hour approximately.
