UFOs in the daily Press:

A BOY, "CHASED" BY A "FLYING SAUCER", SEEKS REFUGE IN A FARMHOUSE IN TERROR

MONTLUÇON. -- The gendarmes recorded the testimony of a farmer's wife from Mesples, Mrs. Gentil, in whose home a 14-year-old schoolboy had sought refuge yesterday morning, crying out:

- Come quickly, I'm scared a saucer is chasing me!

Mrs. Gentil stepped outside her door and at first saw nothing. However, as she scanned the sky, she too spotted a disk “three times larger than the sun, tinged with red and pur-

ple. The craft spun rapidly on itself, then suddenly vanished."

The young Jean-Pierre Coubret, residing in Saint-Palais (Allier), was riding his moped to the secondary school in Huriel when, according to his statement, around 8 a.m., he saw a large disc facing the sun at the edge of the village of Mesples. Suddenly, it began to move, approaching the ground at high speed.

The boy, intrigued, stopped to observe the phenomenon. The saucer, unusually, was positioned vertically rather than horizontally. It appeared as a large silvery disc, sometimes glowing red, sometimes violet, leaving a luminous trail in its wake.

Growing more and more frightened, the schoolboy had the distinct impression that the object was diving toward him. Terrified, he jumped back on his moped, turned around, and headed for Mesples, where he took refuge in the first farmhouse he came across.

In Italy, flying cigars and discs were reported at eight different points across the Italian sky within the past twenty-four hours. "Flying objects" were sighted in Bolzano, Glorenza, Cortina d'Ampezzo, La Spezia, Verona, Perugia, Spoleto, and Naples.