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UFOs in the daily Press:
Flying saucers in the 1954 French Press:
This article was published in the daily newspaper Le Monde, Paris, France, page 2, on March 27, 1948.
GREAT BRITAIN. -. According to the Associated Press a coastguard stated to have seen last Wednesday a spherical object slip by through the sky, followed of a 30 meters long luminous trail. The machine flew over the coast, moving towards the East.
Note: obviously the description fits a meteor.