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UFOs in the daily Press:

The 1954 French flying saucers flap, 1954:

The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Aurore, Paris, France, page 3, on September 20, 1954.

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"No sane man can believe in flying saucers"

declares a German scientist

WUERZBURG (Bavaria). -- Professor Otto Hahn, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, stated at a scientific meeting that "no sane man can believe the absurdities told about flying saucers."

"If men came from Mars or elsewhere," he added with a smile, "they would come down to say hello, instead of circling at high altitude."

A half-cigar flying object in Italy

ROME. -- Thousands of people, including military personnel from aeronautical observation services, saw a mysterious, shining object flying over Rome on Friday afternoon. The object, shaped like a half-cigar, was flying at 1,200 meters altitude and eventually disappeared northwest toward the sea.

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