The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Liberté de l'Est, Epinal, France, page 1, on February 11, 1963.
Padua. -- Painter Mario Salmaso, 21, went five days ago to the countryside of Piove Di Sacco, to take photographs of the "Nature in the snow." Having stopped in front of a big tree with branches covered with snow, he saw, with great emotion, a craft, saucer-shaped, surrounded by a luminous halo, landed near the tree, 70 meters away. Next to the machine, there was a "kind of man" apparently clothed in a cellophane outfit. When the "Martian" entered the "saucer" it took off. The artist says he has, however, managed to take four photographs the "Martian" and his machine for which he reserves the right to publish them.
