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UFOs in the daily Press:

The 1954 French flap in the press:

The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Patriote de Nice et du Sud-Est, Nice, France, page 1, on October 7, 1954.

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"With a face covered in hair and eyes as big as a... crow's egg" - meet the MARTIAN...

And now, the trend is Martians. While everyone has seen a "saucer, cigar, cooking pot or other flying object," not everyone has seen Martians — and we await them eagerly...

Our planetary neighbors must surely be far more advanced than we are, still stuck at the study phase when it comes to this kind of travel.

But what seems most bizarre is the extreme diversity of the Martian species.

According to witnesses, the Martians who landed in northern France were tiny, “knee-high to a grasshopper,” while those who paid a visit to Portugal were reportedly at least 2.5 meters tall. Clearly, the Martian race is very diverse.

And now we can offer new details about the inhabitants of this neighboring planet. These come courtesy of a baker from Finistère and an Italian fisherman. Lucky men to have seen Martians.

Yesterday around 4 a.m., Mr. Pierre Lucas, a baker in Loctudy (Finistère), while drawing water in the bakery's courtyard, suddenly saw a saucer-shaped craft 2.5 to 3 meters in diameter. From it emerged a figure about 1.2 meters tall who approached and tapped him on the shoulder, uttering unintelligible words. Mr. Lucas kept his cool and returned to the bakehouse, followed by the stranger.

In the light, Mr. Lucas was able to get a good look at his visitor: the creature had an oval face, completely covered in hair, and eyes the size of a crow's egg! The young man called for his boss, but before he arrived, the stranger had vanished along with the saucer, leaving no trace behind.

Meanwhile, traffic was halted for over an hour in central Mantua, where crowds gathered to observe a strange white object high in the sky, clearly visible against the blue background.

After performing extremely rapid maneuvers, the spherical object — which some witnesses claimed was part of “a formation of flying saucers” — hovered motionless for a while before disappearing over the horizon.

Moreover, the Martians also seem interested in visiting Italy. In fact, a fisherman from Roverbella, in the province of Mantua, reported that two days ago, a mysterious figure dressed in red approached him, spoke unintelligibly, and quickly departed before the fisherman could call his wife.

P.S.: — It's worth noting the extreme politeness of Martians, who never bother humans for more than a few seconds at a time.

...who just paid us the latest visit.

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