The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Bourgogne Républicaine, de Dijon, France, pages 1 et 10, le 1 octobre 1954.
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The "flying saucers" are definitely "popular". The hunting table of the day yesterday is particularly fruitful. Let us judge:
Around Cabestany (Pyrénées-Orientales), a truck driver, who collected the milk, said he saw in front of his vehicle "a brilliant globe" of bluish color, "which was flying at an altitude of about 150 meters, producing a very soft hum."
Having stopped his truck, the driver was able to observe the movements of the craft for nearly a quarter of an hour. Then, suddenly, it reportedly rose in the sky and disappeared towards the sea.
In Augé (Deux-Sèvres), a flying saucer was reportedly seen.
Also, Mr. Picaud, director of a brewery in Sainte-Pozenne, said he saw, for a few minutes, while driving on the road to Fontenay-le-Comte, a weird sparkling yellow disc.
In Landeda and Aberwrac'h (Finistère), the residents saw, Wednesday evening, at high altitude, a circular craft resembling a "flying saucer."
In Rebais (Seine-et-Marne), several residents stated they saw a strange apparatus, very shining, flying at nightfall in the sky.
Witnesses specified that the craft, which was traveling very slowly, then headed towards Coulommiers, after increasing its speed, and disappeared.
In Montpellier, Mrs Picot, of la Baume, stated she saw, at an altitude of about 1,500 meters, a craft in the shape of a cigar, brilliant and which seemed surrounded by a halo. The craft, which she could observe for about a minute, suddenly disappeared in an easterly direction, without making any noise and without leaving any traces.
Trustworthy witnesses saw, Wednesday evening, in the sky of Kourigra, a locality located about 130 kilometers from Casablanca, a circular craft, red in color, moving at a high altitude.
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SAUCERS
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and at a very high speed and which seemed to spit out flames of a blue green color.
Also, a craft of elongated shape was, still Wednesday evening, around 8:30 p.m., seen in the sky of Safi, by reliable witnesses. The "cigar" was moving at great speed from east to northwest. It was surrounded by a bluish light and left behind a luminous trail. Witnesses claimed that this craft had nothing to do with a jet plane.
Many residents of the town of Strib (Funen) claim to have seen "a yellow-reddish craft", the shape of which was reminiscent of a cigar, moving at high altitude and leaving behind "tongues of fire." Other "luminous craft" have been seen over the last three evenings in Funen and Sweden.
Vienna, 30 (A.F.P.). -- "Flying saucers" regularly reported for some time in Austria are, according to the "Bild Telegraf", remote-controlled vehicles used by certain powers to drop anti-Communist leaflets over Czechoslovakia!
This newspaper reports that leaflets written in the Czech language were found near Efferding, in Upper Austria (Soviet zone), after the passage of two "luminous discs" whose maneuvers were observed by two gendarmes of a neighboring town.
These leaflets, distributed by a group of emigrants belonging to the "Czechoslovak opposition" movement, invite the peasants of Czechoslovakia to leave agricultural communities and state cooperatives.
Two other dailies also mention the testimony of several peasants who claim to have seen a "saucer" caught by the beam of a Soviet AA searchlight.
