The article below was published in the daily newspaper Libération, Paris, France, page 1, le 29 septembre 1954.
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A mysterious craft, dark and dull in color, unknown to modern aeronautical technology as practiced on our planet, landed in the Yonne, at Diges, where two people (who were not together) were able to observe it as well as one of its occupants...
Our colleague L'Yonne Républicaine launched a very serious investigation into the matter. Although we received this information with great caution, it writes, we were forced to accept the evidence. And it recounts the interview with one of the two individuals, Mrs. Geoffroy, widow, residing at Les Jolivets.
"I was heading toward Les Cognats, to the washhouse located below the road that goes from Diges to Les Michaults [... illegible...]
"Before turning right and taking the path to the washhouse, my attention was drawn to the left by a strange craft. Near this mass shaped like an overturned saucer, a man of average height was looking at me.
- How was he dressed?
- He was dressed in dark clothing and was wearing on his head what was probably a sort of khaki cap. He stood a head taller than the height of the saucer.
- What color?
- Dark dirty gray, almost brown.
- Shiny?
- No, dull.
- What length?
- You know, 5 to 6 meters. I was about a hundred meters away. I did not look for long. Fear seized me and I left without beating my laundry. When I returned two hours later, I saw nothing.
The second witness, Miss Gisèle Fin, of Montchenot, employed by Mrs. Guillot, was walking her goats which were grazing along a forest path.
- My dogs, she said, one white and one black, began barking in the meadow. I approached to within about thirty meters, and from that spot I saw a craft lower than a car, dark gray, brown in color. A mixture difficult to describe.
- Was the color neutral or shiny?
- Dull and uniform.
- What height?
- About one meter. The craft, at least five meters long, was more pointed at one end and more rounded at the other.
- Could it have been round?
- Yes, but I maintain it was more tapered on one side. It was resting as if on skids; I saw them.
- What was on it? No door?
- Yes, a door, like that of a hatch, was open, "straight up in the air" (which Mrs. Geoffroy, from farther away, took to be a bulge).
- Nothing was shining on that door?
- No. It was indeed a door; believe me. The pilot, dressed in dark, almost black clothing, was wearing a helmet.
(A helmet, or a cap as Mrs. Geoffroy stated? It is possible that two passengers, one in a cap, the other in a helmet, alternately descended from their craft.)
- He had shoes and, near his machine, was working, almost crouching. The collar of his suit was turned up. I did not see the color of his skin.
With her dogs, Miss Gisèle Fin followed a path and approached the road where she would be safer. She therefore took her eyes off the craft and went into the woods. When, from the road, she returned to look into the clearing, the craft had disappeared without any sound.
Evidence of landing
This time, the "flying saucer" left traces of its landing. This according to statements by a resident of Mrs. Guillot's farm. Indeed, she claims, like Miss Fin, to have seen in the dew two marks 50 centimeters apart and as wide as a finger (the grass was dry at that spot).
There, indeed, the skids must have landed, their warmth, like that of a lukewarm iron, having dried the dew.
That was all that remained of the passage of this unknown craft. No traces now remain.
On the sidelines of this mysterious affair, our colleague L'Yonne Républicaine publishes unconfirmed information according to which, having come from another planet, three saucers are currently in American hands. The first two measured 30 meters in diameter. They contained 16 beings measuring from 0.90 to 1 meter, dead from burns following the rupture of a porthole.
(Only Mr. Dewilde, of Quarouble (Nord), saw a saucer with pilots 80 cm to 1 meter tall.)
A third saucer, measuring only 10 meters, carried only two individuals of the same size, without travel provisions, which suggests the existence of flying "saucer-carrier" planets that observatories have reported, one at 600, the other at 1,000 km from Earth. These new satellites, according to the U.S. Air Force, are not man-made.
"These craft, which move without noise, propel themselves using an omnipresent energy identical in nature to cosmic radiation," recently wrote chief engineer Decker in the journal Forces Aériennes Françaises.
The propulsion of interplanetary vessels can thus be ensured through the use of magnetic lines (1,257 pass through each square centimeter). Cutting two of these lines makes displacement possible. The principle has been established. It remains to be applied.
These craft are said to come from Venus. They have therefore succeeded in passing from the magnetic field of Venus to that of Earth.
