The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Journal de Biarritz et de la Côte Basque, France, pages 1 and 2, on October 8, 1954.
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We announced yesterday the discovery in ESCOUT near Oloron, of a mysterious balloon attached to a kind of kite.
This balloon was transported from the Oloron gendarmerie to the gendarmerie company in Pau. The latter passed it on to the military subdivision.
According to initial observations, it seems to be a device used by air bases for radar detection exercises.
FROM MELON TO BANANA
Mrs. Monnier, living in the Château de Biron, near Monpazier (Dordogne), observed an orange ball the size of a small melon from which emerged a sort of cigar.
Mr. Jean Dubreuilh, a bank employee in Blaye, who was in the company of his wife, saw in the sky, just above the train station, a luminous banana giving off an orange glow.
Two residents of Cissac, Miss Ducasse and Mr. Couty, saw a flying saucer.
A SUPPOSED MARTIAN IN HAUTE-MARNE
Chaumont. -- Mr. André Narcy, a roadmender in Mertrud (Haute-Marne) claims to have seen, in the middle of a field, a strange machine, a kind of spherical saucer ten meters in diameter, into which a little man about 1.20 m tall rushed.
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about, covered with hair, or at least wearing a very tight fur overcoat. He also wore, fastened around his waist, an orange-red corset, and on his head, a cap which seemed to Mr. Narcy to be made of velvet.
Frightened, this mysterious character hurriedly left aboard the "saucer."
A FLYING SAUCER WITH TWO OCCUPANTS
Limoges. -- A farmer from Chalais [sic] (Dordogne), Mr. Garreau, swore on his honor that he had seen a "flying tureen" land on his property. Mr. Garreau stated that two perfectly normal men, dressed in khaki overalls, got out, shook his hand, and spoke to him in an unknown language. Mr. Garreau, astonished, did not reply. The two men petted his dog and got back into their craft, which took off silently at a dizzying speed.
