The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Figaro, Paris, France, page 4, on September 24, 1954.
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Flying saucers and cigar-shaped objects have once again appeared in several regions of France, particularly in Moselle, Indre, and Hérault.
For example, the village constable of Oberdorf (Moselle), M. Louis Moll, reported that on Sunday, around 9:15 p.m., he saw a glow resembling a neon tube, coming from a fairly large object that, after remaining stationary for forty seconds, began rotating, ascended almost vertically, and disappeared to the southeast at a dizzying speed.
In the Indre, two gendarmes from Châteauroux, MM. Courtaud and Peninon, told their superior that, on the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, between 9:15 and 9:45 p.m., above La Fleuranderie, Montierchaume (Indre), they observed a luminous object stationary at approximately 1,500 meters altitude, followed by two others of a greenish color at higher altitudes. The three mysterious objects, after making right-angle turns, reportedly headed northwest and southeast.
In the Haute-Loire, Dr. Mercier, from Le Puy, observed twice above the town a silent, round, shining object moving from south to north at very high altitude. The object was also seen by several other observers around Le Puy.
Finally, in northern Hérault, three credible residents of Lodève were able to follow for nearly five minutes, last Saturday at exactly 7:00 p.m., a mysterious object with a tapered front towing a brightly illuminated globe, moving silently at the speed of an ordinary airplane.
