The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Est Républicain, France, page 11, on September 30, 1954.
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An object was reportedly filmed
Lyon. -- Flying saucers, or cigars of the same kind, are multiplying. Their occupants—if they exist—have just engaged in a veritable aerial carousel in the skies over the Dauphiné. Numerous people witnessed this in the Rhône, Isère, Drôme, and Savoie.
In the Arbresle region, one of these witnesses, a Paris music-hall director, even stated that he had filmed one of these mysterious craft, which he estimated to be flying at an altitude of about 700 meters. It will be known, after the film is developed, whether or not this was an optical illusion.
Near Feyzin (Isère), a young man reportedly saw in the countryside, not far from the ground, an object shaped like a dome and emitting a very bright light. The witness compared it to the light produced by burning magnesium. The craft suddenly rose vertically, leaving behind a shower of sparks, and disappeared.
In the Drôme, a resident of Valence who was walking near Chabeuil claimed to have encountered, on the path she was following, a small being dressed so strangely that she first thought it was a scarecrow. The dog accompanying her barked furiously, seized with terror. As for the equally terrified walker, she hid behind a hedge.
It was then that she saw rising from the cornfield bordering the path a disc from which a whistling sound emanated. Shortly afterward, the witness and some farmers went into the field where, according to them, a circular trace about 3 meters in diameter could clearly be seen, with flattened corn stalks and broken branches around the edge.
Other residents of Chabeuil also stated that they saw a flying saucer that day moving over the countryside.
Finally, in Savoie, near Lake Bourget, above Mont Revard, several motorists—about fifteen people in total—simultaneously saw a craft shaped like a disc maneuver for about four minutes, then suddenly disappear. One of the witnesses, a doctor from Chambéry, was a former artillery observer. He carefully noted the observations and drew a diagram reproducing the path of the mysterious craft.
Finally, in Ille-et-Vilaine, a "saucer" made a locomotive driver ill. The incident occurred near Saint-Nicolas-de-Redon, where Messrs. Gérard, the engineer, and Paroux, the driver, who were operating a light locomotive, saw an object rise from a marsh along the track. This object, of a certain length and followed by a luminous trail, flew for about ten seconds above the engine and disappeared into the sky.
While the engineer remained calm, the driver, on the other hand, was so frightened that he fell ill and had to undergo a medical examination. His condition is not serious.
