The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Figaro, Paris, France, page 2, on October 12, 1954.
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The flying saucer epidemic raging across France has spread beyond its borders, reaching even the Middle East, Africa, and... New Zealand.
Above the Saône, a dark disk made a brief appearance at Saint-Laurent-lès-Mâcon (Saône-et-Loire), where several people crossing the bridge clearly saw it.
In Montluçon, a worker, Mr. Magnier, and some truck drivers saw a luminous sphere crossing the sky at high speed.
17 kilometers from Angoulême, at Tourrier, a cigar-shaped object with two fins was seen by about thirty people on the night of the 8th to the 9th, above National Road No. 10, where it remained stationary for twenty minutes.
A German cinema operator, Mr. Hoge, experienced a strong shock last Saturday. While returning home, he saw near Münster, in a field, a cigar-shaped craft under which four silent men in rubber suits were working. After ten minutes, Mr. Hoge, who had not dared to signal his presence, saw the four men enter the cigar using a ladder. They were about 1.2 meters tall, had heavily developed torsos, large heads, but short and thin legs.
Several hundred residents of Alexandria reported on Saturday night the presence of a luminous object in the sky whose color changed. The Helwan Observatory, near Cairo, attempted to photograph it, but the craft disappeared before it could be captured.
The deputy director of the observatory, Mr. Azouz Ismaïl, stated that it could have been an aurora borealis, as a magnetic storm had been observed in Egypt for the past 48 hours.
Cameroon also experienced a saucer sighting. Alerted by the barking of a guard dog, Colonel Cauvin, director of hygiene and prophylaxis services in Cameroon; Messrs. Dumont, director of security services; Poilleux, adviser to the Territorial Assembly; Moreau, administrator and deputy mayor of Yaoundé, and their spouses, gathered at Dr. Menu’s house, chief physician of Yaoundé hospital, went outside and saw a huge mushroom-shaped disk 600 meters above the plateau where the hospital is located. Beneath it, a highly illuminated cylinder, as long as the disk, swayed slightly. After fifteen seconds, the saucer took off and disappeared.
Finally, in New Zealand, Mr. Gibbons from Nelson managed to capture a series of photographs of three flying saucers using a telephoto lens.
