UFOs in the daily Press:

Flying saucers are getting more and more attention

MOREZ. -- "We saw ghosts last night," said on Tuesday Raymond Roman, 10 years old, and his sister Jeanine, 9 years old, who live on a farm in Prémanon.

It was 8:30 PM on Monday, and a storm was rumbling over this region of the high Jura. Young Raymond, hearing the family dog barking, went outside and saw a silver object about two meters tall, standing on three legs right in the middle of the farmyard. At first scared, Raymond quickly ran back inside, then came back out, gathering all his courage and a few stones, which he threw at the mysterious object that had meanwhile slightly moved.

The child then approached, and the shiny object started moving, emitting a blast that knocked young Raymond to the ground. His cry of fear attracted his little sister, who also saw what soon everyone in the area was calling the flying saucer of Prémanon.

Although it had been raining continuously since Tuesday, the gendarmerie, which conducted the investigation, found marks on the grass at the spot indicated by the children.

Saucer or not, one thing is certain: Raymond Roman's fright was so great that this otherwise perfectly normal child has since developed a stutter.

SAUCERS EVERYWHERE

Other flying saucers have been spotted under various latitudes: in Rebais (Seine-et-Marne), in Brest, in La Rochelle, in Linz (Austria), in Nîmes, in Montpellier, in Perpignan, in Pau, in Casablanca and in Safi (Morocco).

One of our readers, Mrs. Chatelin, who lives at 47, rue Victor-Hugo in La Norville (Seine-et-Oise), reported seeing a "round and luminous thing" moving in the sky over Arpajon on September 22.

PERPIGNAN. -- At the Mas de Bruzy, near Perpignan, several grape harvesters declared having seen a shiny object in the sky shaped like a saucer. After ascending vertically while leaving a white trail, the craft disappeared into the clouds.

MULHOUSE. -- Two people reported seeing a luminous craft in the sky over Rixheim. Using binoculars, they saw it had the shape of a long cigar; a dozen smaller cigar-shaped objects surrounded it. A railroad worker on night duty also reported observing the same phenomenon.

BESSEGES. -- Two residents of the commune of Foussignargues, near Bessèges, reported seeing in a meadow near their home, during the night from Sunday to Monday, a bright red luminous craft surrounded by vertical rods.

PAU. -- Thursday morning, around 11:45 AM, many people saw in the sky, at a very high altitude, a mysterious object shaped like a long, shiny balloon. The craft was coming from the south and heading toward the northwest.

NEVERS. -- Mr. Raymond Deloire, 20 years old, a farm worker from Langeron (Nièvre), who was riding his bicycle on the road to Saint-Pierre-le-Moutiers, saw in the sky a mysterious object shaped like a half-sphere, emitting a bright orange glow at the front, with flames shooting out from the back. The craft moved silently and very quickly toward the northeast.