The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut, USA, on page 26, on October 19, 1954.
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AVIGNON, France, Oct. 19 (INS) -- "Flying saucers" are reported to have been sighted again in France and Italy. Two French Air Force jet planes chased an object described as "a white disc giving out white, red and violet light," but it moved away before the pilots could identify it.