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UFOs in the daily Press:

The 1954 French flying saucers flap, 1954:

The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Humanité, Paris, France, page 8, on October 1, 1954.

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Flying saucers and cigars (continued)

The silent sabbath of "flying saucers and cigars" continues in our skies, this time with the endorsement of two C.R.S. officers. Is this really a guarantee of authenticity?

The two men saw the thing above Vaudoy (S.-et-M.). In Seine-et-Oise again, a "strange craft" is said to have flown over Rebais, heading toward Coulommiers.

Mrs. Picot, from La Baume, in Montpellier, for her part, saw a shining cigar surrounded by a halo.

While collecting milk, a truck driver from Cabestany (Pyr.-Or.) saw, at an altitude of 150 m, in front of his vehicle, a "bluish globe."

"Saucers" again in the Deux-Sèvres - in Auge, in Fontenay-le-Comte - in Finistère - in Landeda and l'Aberwrac'h - in Morocco - in Kourigra. But a "cigar" in Safi (Algeria).

In Austria, it was two gendarmes who spotted a saucer above Steyregg; in Bonn, it was housewives...

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