The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Petit Varois - La Marseillaise, France, page 1 and 5, October 19, 1954.
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If new testimonies, especially those of Messrs. Laure, butcher, cours Lafayette, and Elie Gandolfe, gardener, near Hyères, seem to confirm the stories of MM. Repellini and Ottaviani, the interpretation of this case given by some newspapers is full of imagination.
Thus, one of these newspapers (La République, not to cite it), gives - textually - the following explanation:
"German scientist Hermann Oberth, inventor and builder of the "V-2" rocket said that the "Uranides", name of the inhabitants of a planet where oxygen would not exist in the gaseous state, which prohibits the development of an animal life, would be plants.
The planet in question would be outside the solar system, but the mysterious craft in which the intelligent "plants" would move would move at a speed of 300,000 km per second.
The devices seen above the earth would be in charge to supervising the progress of the earth in the atomic sciences.
If these plant beings decided to attack us we would be forced to make war on vegetables!"
Thus according to "La République" the Hyères engine came from an unknown planet and its pilots would be "Uranides". i.e.
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THE MYSTERIOUS GEAR
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green vegetables, the family of leeks, carrots or turnips.
It belongs to the Air Force and the General Intelligence which is conducting the investigation, to tell whether Messrs. Repellini and Ottaviani told, yes or no, the truth.
But in one case as in the other this will not change the exitising issue.
Is there a new model of aeronautical aircraft half-planes, half-helicopter whose tests in the sky of France would have provoked in the public this epidemic of "sauceritis"?
A German engineer working in the factories of the S.N.E.C.M.A. just made new revelations on this matter.
During an international air navigation congress held in Duisburg (Western Germany), engineer Von Zborowski revealed the characteristics of a new type of aircraft created by the S.N.E.C.M.A.
This aircraft, called a "flying pipe", would have the advantages of the helicopter, but it could reach 2,500 km per hour, would not have wings, but only a fuselage comprising a cockpit and propulsion devices.
But its characteristics were refused to the French press, they are considered to be secret.
Admitting that engineer Zborowski had revealed only the above, there would already be something inadmissible. But one can easily imagine that this German engineer who had access to our secret services was more precise in front of the experts of his country, to whom he was speaking.
The tests of these new machines would explain that almost everywhere in France the appearances of "balls of fire", "flying cigars" and other saucers are reported.
Moreover, as a result of these multiplied apparitions, Mr. René Dejean, deputy of the Ariège, had just sent the President of the Council a written question, asking him,
- "Whether or not a service has been set up to collect the documentation available to date and to study the origin of such devices.
- "If the information currently gathered makes it possible to absolutely exclude the hypothesis of vehicles piloted or guided by living beings of unknown species and origin.
- "If the government has, on the contrary, sufficient information to attribute the production of these machines to the industry of a foreign state.
- "If, in the latter case, the international agreements signed by France already permitted consultations on the use of such devices in a possible conflict."
Thus the affair takes on a more serious character and one starts to say that these "saucers" could in fact be machines of a new type and terrestrial indeed.
