UFOs in the daily Press:

A plane is believed to have crashed into the sea off Le Croisic

SAINT-NAZAIRE. -- Several people reported having seen, yesterday evening around 8:45 p.m., a plane in difficulty over Le Croisic which, after a desperate maneuver attempting to ditch, is believed to have crashed into the waves. Dr. Clenet, mayor of Le Croisic, sent out the boat "Duchesse Anne," which cruised offshore for much of the night in order to locate the survivors.

The "Duchesse Anne" returned without having discovered the crash site, but yesterday morning, Adjutant Lamer, head of the gendarmerie brigade of La Baule, informed the Saint-Nazaire unit that an oil slick had been spotted in the Bay of La Baule, around which dead fish were found. This discovery tends to prove the reality of the plane accident.

There is much speculation about the identity of this aircraft. No disappearance has been reported so far at regional bases, which suggests that the aircraft may be of foreign nationality and that its disappearance has not yet been reported.

The naval forces from the port of Brest carried out searches yesterday morning using the rescue tug "L'Entêté" from the port of Lorient and three vessels based in Brest: the net-lifting ship "Scorpions," the frigate "Croix de Lorraine," and the minesweeper "Accacia."

Additionally, the four-engine "Lancaster" from the Lan-Bihoué base near Lorient took off yesterday morning at 6:15 a.m. to fly over the presumed area of the disappearance.

Its search yielded no results, except for the discovery of wreckage unrelated to that of an aircraft.