The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Echo Du Soir, Oran, Algérie, page 1, on October 23, 1954.
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Epinal, October 23 (AFP)
A worker from St-Rémy (Vosges), Mr. Louis Ujvari, 40 years old, told the gendarmes of Raon-L'Etape that last Wednesday, around 3 a.m., while on his way to work, he had been stopped on the road by an unknown man of strong build and medium height, dressed in a gray jacket with shiny insignia on the shoulders.
The man spoke an unknown language. Mr. Ujvari, of Czech nationality, tried speaking Russian just in case. His interlocutor understood him perfectly.
- Where am I, he asked him, in Italy, in Spain?
He then inquired about the distance separating him from the German border, and then asked the time. When the worker told him it was about 2:30 a.m., the man pulled from his jacket a watch that showed 4 a.m.
He ordered the worker to move forward. Soon, Ujvari saw, in the middle of the road, a craft shaped like two plates placed upside down against each other, from which emerged a kind of periscope.
When he was about thirty meters from the craft, which was about 1.50 m high and 2.50 m wide, the stranger told him to move away. But by turning around from time to time, Mr. Ujvari was able to see the craft slowly rise vertically with the sound of a sewing machine.
Having reached an altitude of 500 meters, it leveled off and disappeared heading south.
