The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Patriote de Nice et du Sud-Est, Nice, France, pages 1 and 7, on October 15, 1954.
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As the number of "saucers" increases and the "Martians" multiply their earthly visits, it seems that some people's imagination grows just as much.
Thus, from Hamburg, we learn that the pilots of "flying saucers" are intelligent plants. At least, that's the theory presented to a correspondent of Agence France-Presse by Professor Hermann Oberth, inventor and builder of the famous "V-2" rocket.
According to the German "scientist," the "Uranids" (that's the name he gives these plants) are thousands of years ahead of Earth humans in both spiritual evolution and technology. The Uranids' home planet, he says, contains no oxygen in gaseous form, which prevents the development of animal life. Plants, on the other hand, extract the oxygen they need from oxides in the soil.
This planet would be located outside our solar system, but the mysterious craft used by these intelligent plants (do they have roots?) could travel at speeds close to that of light (300,000 kilometers per second).
Those of these craft seen above Earth, he says, are here to monitor humanity's progress in atomic science because such progress "represents a danger to the whole cosmos." Unfortunately, the dispatch doesn't specify what exactly is happening in Professor Oberth's "cosmos."
TOULOUSE. -- Mr. Jean Marty, 42, a mechanic living in Leguevin (Haute-Garonne), reported that during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, he saw a luminous disc land in the middle of a field. It measured 6 to 7 meters in diameter and 2.5 meters in height. The disc was orange in color.
Mr. Marty was working around 10:30 p.m. in his workshop located on the road to Toulouse, facing a field 1.5 km from Leguevin. Looking up, he saw the luminous object. Curious, he stepped outside, crossed the road, and walked toward the disc, which then rose silently into the air, vertically, and disappeared at tremendous speed. Mr. Marty reached the center of the field to examine the landing spot. He found no trace, but did discover two sheets of glossy white paper lying on the grass, covered in printed letters.
The sheets, of standard commercial size, were neither soiled, wet, nor creased, but perfectly clean, as if freshly torn from a new brochure. Mr. Marty handed them over to the gendarmerie. They were examined by a former mili-
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try multilingual interpreter who spent many years in Indochina, Mr. Maggie, stated that the text was written in Kuoc-Nu, an Annamite dialect, and that it dealt with issues related to the Indochinese problem.
The pages were handed over to the military authorities.
The investigation revealed that they were simply two pages from a brochure published by the services of Prince Buu Loc, likely left in Leguevin by some Vietnamese people who had come for a picnic... (no comment).
Let's get back to more serious matters.
Five people from Toulon, Mrs. Ber-[?]eix, Mr. Thivolle, Mr. and Mrs. Maroselli, and their 8-year-old son, who were chatting yesterday in Saint-Jean-du-Var, saw at 6:10 p.m. a fireball coming at dizzying speed from the sea and disappearing behind the hills. This fireball left behind a glowing phosphorescent trail. The same phenomenon was observed at the exact same moment by many residents of Cavalaire. This same meteoric event was also seen by the owner of the Hôtel du Petit Vatel.
