UFOs in the daily Press:

Flying saucers are the talk of the town

New details reported by new witnesses

We previously reported that witnesses claim to have seen a flying saucer at Quarouble, on September 10, around 10 p.m.

Our colleague "Le Parisien Libéré" brings additional testimonies regarding a similar event. These come from Mr. Emile Renard and Mr. Yves de Gillaboz of Acheux-en-Amiénois, who, as we had briefly mentioned, also claim to have seen a flying saucer.

This incident, which occurred about 90 kilometers as the crow flies from Valenciennes, dates back to Tuesday, September 7, around 7:15 a.m. The craft seemed to be hovering a few centimeters above the ground in a stubble field about 200 meters from the departmental road between Harponville and Contay.

The two witnesses are highly respected and well-known in Acheux-en-Amiénois, where they reside. They sketched the general shape of the saucer and provided a drawing that our colleague reproduced.

As for Yves de Guillerboz, he has worked as a laborer with Mr. Renard for a year. He is a sturdy 23-year-old man, full of health, who, like his employer, shows no signs of joking around.

Their accounts of the saucer match perfectly, and the overall details also correspond closely with Mr. Dewilde's sighting.

- "Instead of using the truck, which needed engine repairs," explained Mr. Renard, "my worker and I had set out on bicycles to go to our job at the municipal guard's house in La Houssoye. Suddenly, between Harponville and Contay, Guillerboz's bike tire deflated. I stopped to lend him my pump, and my eyes were drawn to a sort of disc, about 250 meters away, in a field."

"Look," I said to my worker, "what a strangely colored haystack!"

"Busy inflating the tire, he didn't respond. Intrigued, I continued to observe the object and noticed it was moving relative to the ground, with a slight rocking motion, like an oscillation around an imaginary axis."

"But look, just look, it's not a haystack!" I shouted to my companion.

"Gripped by some instinct, we both rushed across the fields to get closer to the mysterious craft. We had to cross a fallow field first, then a beet field. As soon as we began to run across, the saucer — for by now we were certain it was one — tilted sideways for about fifteen meters and then rose vertically."

Just like his employer, Mr. Guillerboz described the craft as having a diameter of about ten meters and a height of about three meters.

- "It was bluish-gray in color but not shiny," he specified.

Both men also affirm that the saucer departed without making the slightest sound. Unlike Mr. Dewilde of Quarouble, they did not feel any displacement of air. However, they never managed to get closer than 150 meters to the machine. According to the witnesses, this saucer had a kind of exhaust pipe at the rear, from which smoke emerged during takeoff.

CRAFT SPOTTED IN AMIENS SEEN IN THE THIÉRACHE

ORIGNY-EN-THIÉRACHE. -- Did the flying saucer seen in Amiens fly over the Hirson region last Monday night? Returning from the cinema in Hirson around 12:30 a.m. with his wife and father-in-law, Mr. Robert Chovel spotted, upon reaching the top of Fort Hill, a luminous disc following the railway. At first, he thought it was the moon, but noticing the object was moving, he became intrigued. Even more so when the object suddenly changed direction and stopped on the other side of the road, hovering at an altitude of 300 to 400 meters. According to the three witnesses, the craft had the shape of a red-orange luminous disc with a small, also luminous tail seeming to be attached to it.

Upon reaching the Bure bridge, the motorists saw what they believed to be a flying saucer gain altitude. Just as they pointed their headlights at the craft, it sped off toward Hérie, three or four kilometers away, at an incredible speed. Intrigued, the travelers continued their journey, bypassing Origny, and rushed to the top of Chaudron Hill, hoping to spot the mysterious craft again across the valley. They only saw a faint red glow in the direction of Vervins. Mr. Chovel and his family, being very discreet, had not initially mentioned the sighting and only spoke of it after hearing about the Amiens incident.

A "GOLDEN BALL" IN EAST AFRICA

KAMPALA. -- A government official claims to have seen "a strange golden ball" above Kampala — smaller than the moon but larger than a star.

Several East African residents also claim to have recently seen "flying saucers."

A FARMER FROM CORREZE CLAIMS TO HAVE SHAKEN HANDS WITH A FLYING SAUCER PASSENGER

Now it is not only the resident of Tuarenge [sic] Nord), Mr. Dewilde, who saw strange little beings boarding a "flying saucer"; a resident of Mouriéras, in Corrèze (Mr. Mazaud), claims to have met one of these astonishing passengers. But he went even further: he had the privilege of conversing with him and shaking his hand.

Mr. Mazaud, a farmer, declared to the gendarmes that, returning from the fields the other night, he encountered on a path a normally sized, helmeted individual, who embraced him, shook his hand, and spoke in unintelligible words.

Afterward, the man boarded a cigar-shaped craft about three meters long, which took off vertically and silently, disappearing toward the west.

The gendarmes of Mourieras quickly went to the site but found no traces and were skeptical of Mr. Mazaud's account, much to his displeasure.