The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Liberté du Morbihan, Lorient, France, pages 1 et 12, le 7 octobre 1954.
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Quimper. -- Around 4 a.m. yesterday morning, Mr. Pierre Lucas, a bakery worker in Loctudy, who was drawing water in the bakery courtyard, suddenly saw in the night a craft shaped like a saucer, 2.5 to 3 meters in diameter.
He saw an individual about 1.2 meters tall emerge from it, who approached him and tapped him on the shoulder while uttering unintelligible words. The bakery worker managed to keep his composure and returned to the bakehouse, where the stranger followed him.
In the light, Mr. Lucas was able to see the visitor's face: it was oval and covered in hair, with eyes the size of crow's eggs. The bakery worker called his boss, but before the latter had time to come down, the stranger had disappeared — as had the saucer, which left no trace behind.
A butter merchant from Concarneau also reported having seen in the sky two luminous discs shaped like round tables with tails; one of the discs was stationary while the other maneuvered nearby.
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The two discs disappeared after ten minutes, after launching a rocket.
Traffic was interrupted for over an hour in the center of Mantua by a group of people observing a strange "white object" that stood out clearly against the blue sky at a high altitude.
After performing extremely fast maneuvers, the spherical-shaped craft — which, according to some witnesses, was part of a "formation of flying saucers" — remained stationary in the sky for a while before disappearing on the horizon.
Moreover, the "Martians" also seem to want to visit Italy. In fact, a fisherman from Roverbella in the province of Mantua reported that he was approached last night by a mysterious individual who spoke unintelligible words to him and quickly walked away before the fisherman had time to call his wife.
