The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Aurore, Paris, France, page 1, on October 13, 1954.
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The great abundance of flying saucers that the planet Mars has been sending to France for some time, rather than to any other destination, calls, in my opinion, for the following observations:
1. Our reputation as gullible people has triumphantly reached interplanetary proportions;
2. The French walk around with their noses in the air. From the point of view of road safety, it is worrisome that most reports on flying craft come from motorists;
3. It is impossible that the saucers are a product of imagination or French industry. The proof is that they never break down;
4. The gendarmerie is held in too unanimous a reverence in France, especially by rural populations, for one to suspect that some mischievous villagers are sending the gendarmes "after saucers" for fun;
5. The Martians who have allowed themselves to be approached so far are generally small in stature. It would be interesting to know what the schoolchildren are playing, now that they no longer amuse themselves as “Redskins”;
6. Flying saucers already existed, as is known, even in the time of Pliny the Younger. The Romans took them for optical illusions. It is a pity that Pliny did not live long enough to examine scientifically the phenomenon that modern gendarmerie investigates today.
Z.
