The article below was published in the daily newspaper Franc-Tireur, Paris, France, page 3, on October 5, 1954.
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The "witnesses" of "flying saucer" movements have stopped being funny, so numerous... and clumsy they are. Some make genuine efforts to describe the most astonishing craft in the shape of discs, balls, cigars, even half-cigars in various colors. Some have even described a "cucumber" flying over Vienne and Deux-Sèvres.
But others undermine this mysterious scaffolding of "troubling facts" by trying too hard: Bernard Goujon, notably, the road worker from Faremoutiers (near Coulommiers), who claimed on Friday to have seen in a field a "saucer" shaped like a mushroom, of which he gladly showed the imprints and described in detail the structure, had to admit the hoax to the public prosecutor.
- I'm the one who made the imprints and I saw nothing.
After the confessions of the pranksters in Amiens and the jokers from Portugal, it must once again be acknowledged that every serious investigation into landed "saucers" leads to a hoax.
That didn't stop a group of "trustworthy" individuals from spotting yesterday a shiny craft flying between Mont Blanc and Mont Lachat.
There are more.
In the Somme (again in the Somme), in Vron, two 18-year-olds, Bernard Devoisin and René Condette, "saw" a craft with a pointed roof, shaped like a beehive, which had landed by the roadside and took off after a "small-sized" individual got inside.
In other parts of the department, orange-colored discs were seen...
In Angoulême, the saucer seen by Mr. and Mrs. Voudon turned from red to green before disappearing.
The Massif Central has not been spared. From Clermont and Vichy, a shiny mass was observed. Aurrec [sic] and Saint-Paulien (Haute-Loire) were reportedly overflown by a "large luminous ball."
In Moselle, it's all about cigars. One was seen on Sunday over Dieuze. But yesterday, three residents of Hagondange saw a "luminous diamond."
Finally, in the North, the saucers are multiplying. Mr. Gaston Leceune [sic], a miner in Anaullin [sic], saw a metallic dome, three meters tall, land in his garden just a few meters from him. He ran to raise the alarm at the nearby café, and about fifteen billiard players, brandishing their cues, arrived just as the saucer was taking off. Fifty meters in the air, the craft was joined by two other saucers.
To be continued.
