The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Petit Marocain, Morocco, page 4, on October 24, 1954.
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EPINAL, October 23. -- A worker from Saint-Rémy (Vosges), Mr. Louis Ujvari, 40 years old, told the gendarmes of Raon-L'Étape that last Wednesday, around 3 a.m., while on his way to work, he was approached on the road by an unknown man of stocky build and average height, dressed in a gray jacket and wearing shiny insignia on his shoulders.
The man spoke an unknown language. Mr. Ujvari, a Czech national, tried speaking Russian just in case. His interlocutor understood him perfectly.
"Where am I?" he asked. "In Italy or Spain?"
He then inquired about the distance to the German border, and asked for the time. When the worker told him it was about 2:30, the man took a watch from his jacket, which read 4 o’clock...
He ordered the worker to walk ahead. Soon, Mr. Ujvari saw, in the middle of the road, a craft shaped like two bowls turned upside down, from which a kind of periscope protruded.
When they were about thirty meters from the craft, which was about 1.5 meters high and 2.5 meters wide, the stranger told him to move away. As he looked back from time to time, Mr. Ujvari saw the craft slowly rise vertically, accompanied by a sewing machine-like noise. Once it reached an altitude of 500 meters, it leveled out and disappeared toward the south.
VIENNA, October 23. -- Mr. Gustav Swoboda, Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization, sponsored by the United Nations and currently visiting Austria, expressed skepticism regarding "flying saucers." He stated in Vienna that investigations have shown 76 percent of all unidentified flying objects observed were weather balloons, and the rest were hallucinations.
Mr. Swoboda also categorically denied that atomic explosions have any effect on the weather.
"To claim otherwise," he said, "is mere primitive superstition."
