The unexpected encounter of an Italian settler with a “flying cigar” that landed in front of him, with “pilots” onboard and traces on the ground, causing a week of turmoil in the community and on the local newspapers.
A detailed re-examination of an early African close encounter during the peak of the 1954 wave of flying saucers over Europe, based upon hitherto unknown sources, recovered from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome.
A new examination of a classic close encounter with humanoid, which was part of the famous flying saucer wave in France, was recently published in a local history journa, Les Amis du Vieux Saint-Claude (No. 49, 2026, pp. 2–19).
On September 27, 1954, four children from the small village of Prémanon reportedly encountered a “flying saucer” and a strange-looking being in a field, and the story soon went from local newspapers to magazines and books throughout the word.
The event was already re-investigated in the 1980s, but the new article by Yves Bosson and Jean-Pierre Rospars (“L’affaire du « Martien » de Prémanon: construction et déconstruction d’un fait divers”) goes beyond the simple dychotomy between a real saucer landing and a children prank: this story reveals a wealth of creative mechanisms that produced a surprising collective narrative.
The original article in French as well as an English translation are available.