The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Journal de Biarritz et de la Côte Basque, France, pages 1 and 4, on October 7, 1954.
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After the Bayonne police officer, then customs officer Laborde, from Béhobie, who saw a mysterious green trail in the sky, a Biarritz painter and a police officer from the same town in turn saw mysterious craft in the sky.
Officer Savarit, from Biarritz, declared:
"I had just returned home around four in the morning after finishing my shift, when I heard outside something like the sound of an engine. I opened the windows of my apartment and, leaning out, I very clearly saw in the sky a luminous round craft that seemed to have a hole in its center. Two nozzles seemed to come out of this disc-shaped craft. From one of them, lights were escaping. The craft moved very quickly in the direction of the sea. I soon lost sight of it."
Another Biarritz resident, Dimitri Ziko, a well-known painter, was working Monday morning, around 9:30, in a house on the outskirts of Biarritz overlooking the lake of La Négresse. He was with one of his friends, Mr. Constant Katsupis, when he saw in the sky an oval craft from which long trails of gray-colored vapor escaped. The craft was coming from the direction of Spain and flew very quickly without any sound, very high in the sky, following the coast toward the Landes. It disappeared into the clouds.
Two other people: Mr. Chatenay, from the villa "Alcé," and Mr. Junqua, a cabinetmaker living nearby, also saw the phenomenon at the same time.
NO SAUCER IN THE SAINT-BERNARD ESTATE PARK
Yesterday evening and this morning, the rumor
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spread in town that a flying saucer had landed in the park of the Saint-Bernard College in Bayonne. After investigation, we are in a position to deny this rumor.
MYSTERIOUS BALLOON AND KITE IN ESCOUT
In the neighborhood called "Bois de Herrère," in Escout, near Oloron, a large rubberized canvas balloon, three meters in circumference and gray in color, landed on the ground, attached to a kite made of a thin sheet of aluminum and thick cardboard. A second identical balloon, but burst, was also attached to the kite.
The Oloron gendarmes came to Escout to take this mysterious device, the origin of which is being investigated.
A MYSTERIOUS DISC IN THE SKY OF ORTHEZ
In the Lapoustelle neighborhood of Orthez, near the Moncade Tower, a very bright disc about half the diameter of the full moon was seen Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. in the sky by about twenty people. This very luminous disc took on a red hue, hovered for a moment, then disappeared.
