The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Liberté du Morbihan, Lorient, France, pages 1 and 10, on October 2, 1954.
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MULHOUSE. -- Two people reported seeing a luminous craft in the sky over Rixheim. Using binoculars, they observed that it had the shape of a long cigar and was surrounded by about a dozen smaller cigars. A railway worker also reported observing this phenomenon.
IN PARIS: many people saw in the sky at very high altitude a mysterious craft in the shape of a long, shiny balloon. The object was coming from the south and heading northwest.
IN NEVERS: Mr. Deloire, 20 years old, a farm worker in Langeron, was riding his bicycle when he spotted a mysterious object in the sky shaped like a half-sphere, emitting orange lights at the front and blue flames at the rear.
"Saucers" spotted
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Regularly spotted for some time in Austria, these would be, according to the "Bild Telegraf", remote-controlled devices used by certain powers to drop anti-communist leaflets over Czechoslovakia.
This newspaper reports that leaflets written in the Czech language were indeed found near Eferding, in Upper Austria (Soviet zone), after the passage of two "luminous discs" whose maneuvers were observed by two gendarmes from a nearby town.
