The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Union, of Reims, France, page 5, on October 1, 1954.
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Do they exist, or do they not? What are they? No one knows yet. But one thing is certain: many people have seen, or believed they saw, "flying saucers". It was a milkman from Cabestany (Pyrénées-Orientales) who spotted "a bright globe of bluish color", it was Mr. Picaud, a brewer in Augé (Deux-Sèvres) who saw "a sparkling yellow disc." For the inhabitants of Landeda (Finistère) the craft had the shape of a cigar, and for those of Rebais (Seine-et-Marne), it was simply "mysterious." In Kouriga, Moroccans saw a cup "spitting fire."
We should also mention the testimony of an aviator, Mr. Michel Guyard, chief pilot of the Challes-les-Eaux airfield, who reduced to less... Martian proportions the "saucer" observed the day before yesterday by Dr. Martinet of Chambéry. The pilot, who had also believed he saw a saucer, wanted to take a closer look and caused a flock of starlings to scatter. Dr. Martinet, who spoke with Mr. Guyard, acknowledged that he could have made the same mistake.
But there is even better: the "Bild Telegraf," a Vienna newspaper, very seriously announces that the "flying saucers" regularly reported for some time in Austria are said to be "remote-controlled devices used by certain powers to drop anti-communist leaflets over Czechoslovakia."
