The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Aurore, Paris, France, page 14, on October 8, 1954.
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Numerous saucers once again flew over several regions of France yesterday. From these craft of various shapes sometimes descend "Martians," whose descriptions suggest that the planets might harbor the most diverse types of "humanoids."
Thus Mr. André Narcy, 48 years old, a road worker in Mertrud (Haute-Marne), has just encountered one of these curious figures.
On his way to work the other morning by motorcycle, he noticed in a field near Voillecomte an orange-colored object. The road worker stopped, and on foot approached to within about a hundred meters of the craft. He then saw a small being dressed in a hairy cloak: it was about 1.2 meters tall. After a few seconds of hesitation, Mr. Narcy called out to the strange figure, but it immediately rushed into its saucer which, taking off vertically, disappeared into the clouds.
The craft was spherical in shape, about ten meters in diameter. Beneath the sphere was a sort of spindle and the porthole through which the "Martian" had entered. At its departure, a kind of flame issued from the spindle while vaporous eddies formed under the craft.
IN DORDIVES (Seine-et-Marne), Mr. Jean Caillaux and Gaston Deleait declared that they saw, at very high altitude, a strangely shaped object moving in the sky, which suddenly disappeared toward the west.
IN CORBIGNY (Nièvre), three residents reportedly witnessed, at different hours, the movement of mysterious craft at high altitude. These objects, cylindrical in shape, emitted red-orange glows when horizontal, and a dazzling white light when ascending vertically.
