The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Journal de Biarritz et de la Côte Basque, France, page 1, on October 30, 1954.
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Rome. -- Ten residents of Tradate, near Varese, claim to have seen, at night while leaving a coffee shop, a flying saucer landed in a field. Around the craft moved small creatures wearing cylindrical white trousers, rigid like steel tubes, a kind of armor, and a diver's helmet; both emitted sounds similar to those of suckling pigs through a trumpet-like device. When the Italians threw stones at them, the "Martians" retreated toward their saucer, and the projectiles were mysteriously deflected back at those who had thrown them. The same happened with the dog of one of the witnesses. After this, the "saucer" took off vertically at an incredible speed!