The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Figaro, Paris, France, page 2, on October 2, 1954.
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"Saucers" continue tirelessly to fly... At the Mas de Bruzy, near Perpignan, several grape pickers saw in the sky a shining object shaped like a saucer. After moving vertically, the craft disappeared into the clouds, leaving behind it a white trail.
At Rixheim, near Mulhouse, two people observed through binoculars the movements of a long shining cigar surrounded by about a dozen smaller ones. A railway worker stated that he had seen the same phenomenon.
A bright red luminous craft appeared, at the bend of a path, resting in a meadow, to two inhabitants of the commune of Foussignargues, near Bessèges.
At Pau, yesterday around 11:45 a.m., numerous people saw at very high altitude a mysterious craft shaped like a long shining balloon. The craft, which came from the south, moved toward the northwest.
Near Nevers, finally, Mr. Raymond Deloire, 20 years old, an agricultural worker in Langeron (Nièvre), who was cycling the other night on the road to Saint-Pierre-le-Moutier, saw in the sky a mysterious semi-spherical object emitting a bright orange glow at the front. Flames were bursting from the rear. The craft moved silently with great speed toward the northeast.
At Belesta, in the Ariège, a café owner, Mr. Saboureau, saw yesterday afternoon a shining ball followed by a trail of gray smoke.
Two masons from Montceau-les-Mines declared that they had seen, along the road from Blanzy to Montceau-les-Mines, a cigar-shaped craft of very dark yellow color, three meters long, which took off with a terrible whistling sound.
Several road workers who were working in Seine-et-Marne on the Coulommiers–Meaux road, near the Quincy-Voisins airfield, saw a flying saucer in a field. The craft, with a diameter of 3 meters and a height of 2.5 meters, was resting on three supports. One of the witnesses, Mr. Bernard Goujon, said that he wanted to approach the craft. When he was only 150 meters away, he felt tingling sensations as if an invisible electric beam had been directed at him. Paralyzed, he could only watch the saucer take off. Deep marks were found on the ground at the place indicated by the road workers.
Mr. Arsène Stéphan, second-in-command of a cargo ship that docked in Brest yesterday, stated that during the night of September 23 to 24, while the ship was in the Bay of Biscay at 44°48' N and 4°50', he had seen a star four times larger than the others. Two of his sailors who were beside him made the same observation. Through binoculars they determined that it was a moving disc on which green reflections appeared at times.
The day before yesterday, at dusk, a sailor who was at the helm of the tanker Port-Lyautey saw, less than 300 meters away from him, a saucer-shaped craft of red color skim the surface of the water, then rise rapidly vertically and disappear leaving a red flame.
After the green and red saucers, here is one that trailed a white glow behind it and was seen yesterday morning by three workers from Saint-Hilaire-les-Cambrai.
Finally, in Sweden, the military experts to whom a photograph of a mysterious craft had been submitted reached the conclusion that it was simply condensation trails left by an airplane flying at high altitude and great speed.
