The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Bien Public, Dijon, France, page 6, on October 25, 1954.
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Oslo, August 24. -- A flying saucer is reported to have landed last Friday in the Mosjoeen region, about 300 kilometers northeast of Trondheim, and the pilot, a dark-haired man with long hair, was allegedly seen by two sisters who were picking berries in the mountains, according to a local newspaper.
A police officer in Mosjoeen confirmed that the two sisters, aged 24 and 33, who are not regarded as "fantasists," claimed to have seen the flying saucer land. According to them, the pilot was wearing a buttonless aviator's suit. After vainly trying to make himself understood with drawings on paper, he supposedly climbed back aboard his craft, waved goodbye to the sisters, and quickly took off vertically.
Since the two women had no time to approach the craft, they can only give vague details about its appearance. According to them, it consisted of two discs about five meters in diameter.
Despite the implausibility of their statements, the local police will go tomorrow to the alleged landing site in the hope of finding traces of the flying saucer.
Evreux, August 24. -- Mysterious craft were reportedly seen by several people in the sky over Vernon (Eure) during the night from Sunday to Monday.
The son of a local shopkeeper claims to have clearly seen, around 1 a.m., above the Seine, an elongated red object resembling a large cigar. According to him, the object hovered motionless at fairly low altitude. Total silence prevailed.
From this strange object detached a flying saucer, which the witness described in detail:
"It had the shape of an oval disc, dark in color, topped by a red dome with a very bright halo surrounded by flames."
The flying saucer separated from the cigar, dropped vertically, then seemed to attempt horizontal flight above the bridge. It turned, climbed back up, and suddenly disappeared—only to be immediately replaced by another.
This curious carousel is said to have lasted three quarters of an hour.
These observations were confirmed by several people, including a chemical engineer from the army's ballistics and atomic research laboratory, who at the same time was traveling on Route N. 182. The engineer observed the mysterious bright craft and concluded, with his companion, that they could only have been flying saucers.
