The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minesota, USA, page 8, on November 6, 1954.
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CASUALTY -- The first casualty in a war between French peasants and "Martians" was reported at Tain-l'Hermitage, France. After dozens of flying saucer reports, a grape picker mistook a fellow worker for a visitor from outer space and attacked him with a club so savagely that one ear was torn off.