The article below was published in the daily newspaper Var-Matin - République, France, on March 1, 1978.
The Var Society for the Study of Spatial Phenomena (S.V.E.P.S.), well known in the ufology world for the seriousness of its work, informs us that by taking into account the statistics that it has been studying for many years, we are entering in 1978 in a period of great "UFO" activity.
This company specifies that it is not a question of "believing" or not in UFOs but to make an observation on a reality. Only those who are not familiar with the files can still be skeptical.
We had a passager over Toulon on Wednesday February 15, 1978 at 6:50 a.m., noted by around fifty witnesses scattered throughout the Var department.
On February 22, 1978, at 7 p.m., other witnesses in Toulon-La Seyne-La Ciotat also witnessed a "passage".
Since the start of the year, S.V.E.P.S. investigators. are constantly harassed by witnesses of "strange encounters" with "machines with fantastic performance" unknown to man.
The aim of this article is to ask all those who have recently witnessed "such a spectacle from elsewhere", not to hesitate to make themselves known. The S.V.E.P.S. preserves the anonymity of those who wish it. But hidden testimony is always considered a bad move for research.
No one has the right to escape this search for the UFO enigma. posed to humanity by these visitors from elsewhere.
Everyone is invited to come to the S.V.E.P.S., 6, rue Paul-Guérin (ground floor), Toulon, On duty days, Tuesday and Friday from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., where you will be received by those - the same who, ufology technicians, will make you participate in their extraordinary work.
You can, if you wish and are curious, and who wouldn't? integrate you into their adventures and participate in them. Take advantage of the wave announced - the largest since 1954 - to introduce yourself to what Science Dr. René Hardy, great French scientist, founder of the S.V.E.P.S. said to be "the prefiguration of our future."