The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Figaro, Paris, France, page 2, on October 14, 1954.
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Flying saucer sightings continue across France. Two residents of the Toulouse suburbs, Mr. Pierre Vidal and his nephew Angel Hurle, saw yesterday morning, at dawn, a giant rocket barely a hundred meters from their house. The rocket, having launched from a field, quickly disappeared into the sky, producing an unusually intense glow. The two men then went to the spot where they had seen the mysterious craft originate. There they observed that the grass had been pressed down in a circular area about five meters in diameter. At the center of this zone, they discovered four impressions in the soil that appeared to have been left by the feet of a heavy craft.
A craftsman and his apprentice reported seeing, on the Evreux-Louviers railway line while riding a motorcycle around 3 a.m., a bell-shaped craft 2.5 to 3 meters high, hovering about a meter above the ground.
Dr. Durand, general councilor of the Belleville-sur-Saône canton, and Mr. Bourgeois, a café owner in Saint-Georges-de-Reneins, observed a flying saucer above the Chapelle de Brouilly.
During the Metz Fair-Exhibition, a military spotlight installed at the army stand scanned the skies over Metz each evening. On Sunday night, the operators saw, at an estimated altitude of over 10,000 meters, a luminous circle that remained stationary for several hours. The radar unit, also set up at the army stand, tried in vain to detect the unusual circle with its equipment.
