The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Aurore, Paris, France, page 9, on October 22, 1954.
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DIEPPE has nothing left to envy in other French cities: it has just received a visit from flying saucers. Several residents of this town claimed to have seen a luminous ball, blue-green in color, in the sky.
Aussay, a small town near Dieppe, was overflown by a mysterious craft that emitted a strange whistling sound. It was shaped like a gigantic cigar, possibly 15 to 18 meters long; at the center of the craft was a disc topped with a dome.
In HAM (Somme), three motorcyclists, Messrs. Marc and Gilles Lemaire, and Jean Ivard, were on their way to work when they noticed in the sky a red disc followed by a flaming cone moving at the speed of an airplane. At the exact moment the craft passed over the motorcyclists, their engines suddenly stopped and their headlights went out. Everything returned to normal when the mysterious object disappeared.
In the Nièvre, a luminous disc and a red globe were seen by many people. Above the municipal park of Nevers, students of the Saint-Cyr institution observed a circular, very bright craft heading westward.
In Charente-Maritime. -- A motorist from the Charbonnière area was driving with his 3 ½-year-old son on the road from Sérifère to Paille when, around 9:30 p.m., the child and he felt painful tingling sensations, like electric shocks, which increased as they went on.
The car's engine suddenly stopped and the headlights went out. The child began to cry. A bright glow, shifting from bright red to orange, dazzled the occupants of the car, who saw a motionless craft in the sky. Then what they had recognized as a flying saucer vanished into the night.
[Caption under drawing:] A "MARSOUIN"!...
