The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, on page 24, on October 29, 1954.
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MARTIAN -- Aime Bousard, 47, a farmer, reported to police at Aubusson, France, that he encountered a Martian creature on a country road and was paralyzed by the "thing" for 10 minutes. He said the Martian left in a space ship looking like a "flying cauldron."