The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Dauphiné Libéré, France, on October 15, 1954.
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Fontaine de Vaucluse, October 14 - 12 p.m. 30... A saucer... a saucer... a saucer!...
Alerted by children who were the first to see it in the sky, the population was soon in turmoil.
A white disc hovered slowly above Fontaine-de-Vaucluse.
Large artillery binoculars at the eyes, it was possible to clearly distinguish a large white disc, surmounted by a spherical cap of the same color, quite similar to a silver bowler hat.
The lower circular border carried, intermittently, powerful lights, varying from white to purplish, passing through the red.
Oscillating on the axis of the large lower disc, the whole was sometimes in the shape of a bowler hat, sometimes of a diamond, sometimes of a simple disk with shiny edges, where the fixed fire, diametrically opposite, was intermittently, very clearly visible to the naked eye.
No smoke. No noise.
The Caritat air base, alerted, immediately directed two jets which, around 2 p.m., made their appearance in the sky over Vaucluse.
Our correspondent, being in telephone connection with the air base from where one communicated by radio, with the planes, it was easy to guide the apparatuses towards the "saucer".
After two turns on Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, the planes gained altitude and dove down towards the reported object.
The aircraft radio announced that the "saucer" was in sight, that they were chasing it, but that it was escaping at a speed greater than theirs.
Indeed, from Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, one clearly saw the saucer go away with the two jets in pursuit.
Apt, October 14. Around 6:30 p.m. this evening, many spectators saw a flying cigar emitting a green glow.
Mrs. Odette Esperon [...missing part...]
