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Toulouse, in turn
is passionate about
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Toulouse, 14. (A.P.). - Yesterday, in Toulouse, an event occurred, so extraordinary that the whole city talks about it.

The one who witnessed it, Mr. Olivier, is not an illuminated man. He owns the Javel Neto establishment, as well as a house, located at 102 rue des Fontaines. It was while crossing his garden, as he was returning home, around 7:30 p.m., that he saw at about 80 meters, a kind of luminous ball, of reddish color, posed on the ground, in front of a tree trunk, near a bordering soccer field.

He soon went to alert a neighbor, Mr. Pérano, to let him notice the phenomenon. But great was the amazement of the two men when they saw moving, near the luminous ball, a human form which, although not measuring more than one meter twenty approximately, exceeded the machine by the height of a head. The mysterious figure was dressed in a sort of orange diving suit.

Mr. Olivier hastened to draw on a nearby door the silhouette of the "Martian", believing, not without reason, that this was the surest way to engrave it in memory. A camera would certainly have been better, but Mr. Olivier did not have one on hand - nor did Mr. Pérano - and the weird stranger would not have left him with time to go get one. Either to escape the curiosity of which he was the subject, or for any other reason known to him alone, he bent down to enter his ball. It immediately rose in the sky at a pace that the two witnesses of the scene did not hesitate to describe as dizzying, leaving behind a trail of sparks of a striking effect.

One of the witnesses assured that the saucer was surrounded by iridescent reflections and emitted around it a light mist. He added that having wanted to approach, he had been held at about twenty meters by a paralyzing force and that, when the spacecraft rose in the sky, he had been violently thrown to the ground.

An investigation is underway to try to elucidate certain still obscure aspects of this appearance.

Oily traces were reported this morning at the place indicated by the witnesses.