The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Humanité, Paris, France, page 8, on October 7, 1954.
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A retiree from Beuvry-les-Mines (Nord), Mr. Victor d'Oliveira, was freely making "saucers" out of tow and thick paper, which he launched into the sky.
Upon landing, one of these devices nearly set a haystack on fire, and the prankster was fined for "dangerous amusement."
However, pranksters are not the only ones dealing with "flying saucers." An interesting testimony has just been provided by Mr. Farnier, a civil engineer who served in aviation. He claims to have seen above his property, in Jouy-sur-Morin, a large disk 8 to 10 meters in diameter, hovering in place while emitting red-violet glows, with a whistling sound somewhat like that of a jet aircraft approaching.
Not all more or less serious observers of these celestial phenomena go as far as the extreme case of Mr. Pierre Lucas, who claims to have seen a "Martian" 1.2 m tall come down from a saucer 3 meters in diameter, in the courtyard of a bakery in Loctudy (Finistère). The Martian reportedly had an oval face, covered with hair, and eyes the size of "a crow's egg." Unfortunately, it fled after tapping the baker on the shoulder and asking for something unintelligible (gasoline perhaps? or matches? or a slice of bread? Who knows what Martians might need!)
