The article below was published in the daily newspaper Libération, Paris, France, page 6, on October 11, 1954.
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No Sunday truce for saucer observatories and other watchers of flying crockery. At least, a few defections are being recorded among the "uranide" interlocutors—those Martians who may be from elsewhere: The two "strange beings" seen by a Basque man in a field in the Basses-Pyrénées turned out to be purely mythical, as the witness had to admit.
But the mystery continues to thrive on numerous testimonies from north to south, from Calais, where a motorist nearly collided with a huge blue disc taking off from a field without warning; to Quimper, where an orange sphere skimmed just above a fishing family; to Châteauroux, where Mr. Rabant heard the whistling of a gray craft hovering at an altitude of 100 meters; to Liège, where the royal observatory decided to open an investigation; and even to Alexandria, Egypt, where the control tower at the Muhza airfield leisurely tracked the movements of a primitive-type saucer for an hour.
