The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Télégramme de Brest, Brest, France, pages 1 and 2, on August 26, 1954.
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He was dark like a Gypsy, very hairy, smiling, and traveled aboard a flying saucer
Oslo, 25 (U.P.). -- A Norwegian newspaper reports that a flying saucer landed last Friday near Mosjoeen, in northern Norway, and was seen by two women who were in the area picking blueberries — two sisters who, it is said, are not known to be fanciful.
The police questioned them at length, and here is what they recounted: they met in the countryside a very dark man with long black hair.
The man was unable to make himself understood, for he spoke a language unknown to the two women, although they spoke Norwegian, English, German, and French. This was already quite strange.
When the stranger, who appeared friendly, displayed a star chart, there was little doubt left that he came from another planet.
When finally, unable to make himself understood, the long-haired man led the two women into a small clearing and showed them his flying saucer, which was sitting quietly there, it would have taken more incredulity than Saint Thomas to resist the evidence that he was, at the very least, a Martian.
The saucer had a diameter of five meters and the shape of two plates placed face-to-face, one against the other.
The stranger smiled, climbed back aboard his craft, waved farewell, and took off at a terrifying speed.
A large crowd gathered today at Oeydalen to see, if not the saucer and its overly hasty passenger, at least the spot where this memorable event had taken place.
One of the two women (the elder) who claimed to have seen a "flying saucer" and its pilot last Friday has stood by her statements before the press.
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Both had at first agreed to maintain the utmost discretion, fearing that their story would make them seem insane, but one of them, pressed with questions by her husband who had found her behavior strange that day, revealed their extraordinary adventure.
She specified that the man was dark like a gypsy, of medium height, and dressed in a kind of khaki-colored tunic. He spoke words the two women could not understand and began to draw, on something resembling a piece of paper, the sun, the moon, the Earth, and another planet from which he made them understand he had come.
The man then motioned for them to follow him, and to their great astonishment, they saw a flying saucer.
One of the sisters wanted to touch the craft, but the man grabbed her arm, showing her—she did not know why—the roots of trees, then climbed aboard his machine.
In their agitation, the two sisters only remember that the craft began spinning on itself, slowly at first, making hardly more noise than a bumblebee, then faster and faster until it quickly took off and disappeared on the horizon.
Accompanied by three policemen, the two sisters went this morning to the site of their adventure, where no trace could be found that might prove any kind of landing.
Although they again insist that everything in their story is true, the Norwegian police nonetheless tend to think that the tale of the two women is the fruit of a very vivid imagination, fueled by an excessive consumption of “science-fiction” literature.
