The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Rouergue Républicain, France, on October 16, 1954.
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AVIGNON, October 15th. - Early in the afternoon of Friday, at 1:30 p.m., the population of Fontaine de Vaucluse was in turmoil.
Indeed, a "white disc" was hovering slowly over the small city and one could clearly distinguish it with good binoculars.
This white disc was surmounted by a spherical protrusion of the same color.
The lower circular border intermittently bears two powerful lights, varying from white to purplish, passing through the red.
The air base of Caritat (Vaucluse), alerted, immediately directed two jet planes which soon made their appearance, and after two turns on Fontaine de Vaucluse, took altitude and dove on the "disc".
The radio on board the planes, which was in communication with the base, announced that the craft was in sight, that it was being hunted, but that it escaped because its speed was higher than theirs.
From Vaucluse, one could see clearly the disc skyrocketing, pursued by the two jets.
CALAIS. - A baker boy
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from Calais said he had seen, at 3:40 a.m., at the place called "Saint Pierre Halte", on the road to Saint-Omer a yellow and shiny craft land on the railway tracks.
According to the baker, the curiously shaped object was two meters in height and four meters in diameter.
NIMES. - Two people saw last night, as they were returning home, a few kilometers north of Nîmes, a greenish glow in a field. They approached and found the presence of a craft in all aspects identical to a rugby ball and seeming to rest on crutches. The strange device suddenly rose into the air, emitting a faint noise and gradually taking on an orange hue.
