The 1954 French flap:

MARTIANS TOO LIKE CABBAGE SOUP

A gardener of our city whose competence on the matter is unanimously recognized was very surprised the other morning to see that cabbages were in his kitchen garden. The fact occuring again, he exerted a discrete guard. He was most surprized tosuddenly see in the sky, weird shapes that approached the ground. No mistake he said, these are flying saucers. Judge of his surprise when these apparatuses landed in his garden and he saw emerging from there odd beings which pushed raw shouts and start to occupy themselves in gatherinh his cabbages. Here are my robbers, he told himself! The "Martians" steal my cabbages. Our friend did not lose his coolness, he clapped in his hands like to frighten sparrows and the group disbanded towards the apparatuses to fly away in the sky. The story having occurred without witness I thus can't guarantee that it is true. But its hero the sympathetic Gaston ensures us that it is perfectly correct. I deliver it for what it is worth.

"La Montagne" of Aurillac for 10/8/1954 also reported an observation of a resident of Jaleyrac (Cantal), but after investigation, it appeared that this brave man had made his observation in Lavaur, in the Tarn. The facts falsely located by the press of the time in the county capital of the observation or in the place of residence of the witness constitute a not insignificant quantity.

MARTIANS TOO LIKE CABBAGE SOUP

A gardener of our city whose competence on the matter is unanimously recognized was very surprised the other morning to see that cabbages were in his kitchen garden. The fact occuring again, he exerted a discrete guard. He was most surprized tosuddenly see in the sky, weird shapes that approached the ground. No mistake he said, these are flying saucers. Judge of his surprise when these apparatuses landed in his garden and he saw emerging from there odd beings which pushed raw shouts and start to occupy themselves in gatherinh his cabbages. Here are my robbers, he told himself! The "Martians" steal my cabbages. Our friend did not lose his coolness, he clapped in his hands like to frighten sparrows and the group disbanded towards the apparatuses to fly away in the sky. The story having occurred without witness I thus can't guarantee that it is true. But its hero the sympathetic Gaston ensures us that it is perfectly correct. I deliver it for what it is worth.

Le Patriote du sud-ouest #2729, for Saturday 9 and Sunday 10, October 1954. Lavaur

Beginning of October 1954, martiens steal cabbage in Lavaur

Here an affair that was published in the newspaper Le Patriote du Sud-Ouest. Considering the refractory character of this daily newspaper now disappeared (good!) with respect to the flying saucers, one can reasonably imagine the observation did really occur. The informaiton given is exceptional as it is about a landing with the rpesence of humanoids in the garden of a witness, apparently known by the population. It is undoubtedly for this single reason, his credibility, that such an account could be published in the column reserved for the news of Lavaur. As for the significance of this encounter, one swims in total delirious, in most total absurdity and incomprehension.