The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Humanité, Paris, France, page 8, on October 14, 1954.
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Saucers, discs, fireballs, cigars, mushrooms, circles, funnels and other craft - flying, as everyone knows - continue, if we are to believe an ever-growing number of observers, their infernal dance in the skies of our Earth.
Two residents of the Toulouse suburbs, Mr. Pierre Vidal and his nephew Angel Hurle, saw on Tuesday morning at daybreak, barely a hundred meters from their home, a giant rocket which, after lifting off from a field, quickly disappeared into the sky, producing a brightness of rare intensity.
At the spot where they place the starting point of the mysterious craft, the grass is said to have been flattened over an area 5 meters in diameter, at the center of which four marks remained that appeared to have been left by the wheels of a heavy machine.
A 13-year-old boy, young Gilbert Lelay, claims to have seen last night around 10:30 p.m. a phosphorescent cigar in a meadow, 600 meters from the village of Sainte-Marie-en-Erbray, near Châteaubriant.
A man dressed in a suit and gray hat, wearing boots, reportedly told him in French: "Look, but don't touch." He held in his hand a sphere emitting violet flashes. The child claims to have seen a control panel with several multicolored buttons. Then the craft slowly rose vertically, emitting lights in all directions.
During the Metz Fair Exhibition, searchlight specialists at the Army stand - since there was indeed an Army stand, also equipped with radar, at this fair - caught in their beams an unidentified circle that remained motionless for long hours. The radar, however, detected nothing. The official investigation is ongoing. It may be a "swirling cumulus" illuminated by the full moon, or a weather balloon.
It is known that in its Sunday special issue, "L'Humanité Dimanche" will take stock of this fascinating problem.
