The 1954 French flap:

HAUTE-MARNE

THE 2 WITNESSES DIDN'T KNOW EACH OTHER...

[Caption of the "Martian" sketch:] Such is the Martian represented by Narcy and Oldut. Our designer has carefully reconstructed it from the descriptions and sketches made by these witnesses.

[Left:] First witness: Grégoire Oldut, 63, farmer. Honourably known. His testimony supports that of Mr. Narcy. We give him the floor: "Leaving my land of the "Bobottes", I set off on the road to Wassy. Suddenly, behind the curtain of trees of the "old tile factory", I see a gold disc in the sky. Am I dreaming? Not at all! The orange spot plunges from the sky and, after a few leaps in the grass, lands. I could not believe my eyes. A one-meter-tall creature comes out of the infernal machine. Suddenly the "bipedal" stranger goes back on board. The apparatus rises and disappears... "

[Right:] Second witness, André Narcy, 48, roadmender in Mertrud, 15 km from Wassy. He says: "It was at 7 a.m. that I saw a saucer and its passenger. The mysterious machine, orange, 10 m in diameter, rested in the field of the "old tiles". I was 100 m. away. The pilot, standing near his craft, was looking at me! He was covered in hair and barely measured 1.20 m. I waved at him. Immediately, he entered the saucer through a window and flew off vertically. "Everything" disappeared very quickly in the clouds. I then noticed in the grass some skid marks caused by the craft."

[Below:] No copying on one another, our reporters point out, seating Narcy and Oldut back to back. The good faith of the two witnesses appears, moreover, to be full and complete. They have never seen each other before. It is our reporters who have just introduced one to the other for the first time and, since then, they have been monitoring them closely. The result is extraordinary. Their sketches resemble each other in a wonderful way. Their descriptions of the passenger also coincide. Narcy and Oldut didn't lie.

GLOBULAR SPACESHIP SKETCH (right) by Gregoire Odut depicts golden disk he saw zoom from Wassy after two-legged creature leaped out for hasty look.

October 5 [, 1954]

07:00 a.m.: Wassy (near--Hte.Marne):disc diameter 10 m + hairy dwarf

And the man who spoke to the police at Vassy (case No. 58) to report that he had just seen the pilot of a strange machine was not a joker: we learned that he was 48 years and was the father of seven children; he was roadmender at Vassy for nineteen years.

Let us now try to look in detail at cases that are similar in their description. If the "little green man" has been successful, we have to admit that it is not the most common in the visions of saucer pilots. On the other hand, we are in the presence of several cases where, in broad outline, the portrait of our mysterious visitors resembles that described by Mr. Lucas (Loctudy affair).

Arrived among the first on the scene, it was two journalists from the weekly "Radar" who were the first to collect the testimonies of the two observers of Wassy.

Let us quote this publication:

"It is forbidden to copy one over the other, our reporters point out, making Narcy and Oldut sit back to back. The good faith of the two witnesses appears to be full and complete. They had never met before. It was our reporters who just brought them together for the first time and since then they have been watching them closely. The result is extraordinary. Their sketches are marvelously alike. Their descriptions of the passenger also coincide. Narcy and Oldut didn't lie."

First witness: Grégoire Oldut, 64 years old, farmer. Honorably known. His testimony supports that of Mr. Narcy. We give him the floor: "Leaving my land of "Babottes", I set off on the road to Wassy. Suddenly, behind the curtain of trees in the "old tile factory", I see a gold disc in the sky. Am I dreaming? Not at all! The orange spot plunges from the sky and, after a few leaps on the grass, lands. I cannot believe it. A one-meter-high creature comes out of the infernal machine. Suddenly the "bipedal" stranger comes back on board. The craft rises and disappears... ".

Second witness. André Narcy, 48 years old, roadmender in Mertrud, 15 km from Wassy. He testified as follows: "It was at 7 a.m. that I saw a saucer and its passenger. The mysterious craft, orange, 10 m in diameter, rested in the field of the "old tile factory". I was 100 m away. The pilot, standing near his craft, was looking at me! He was covered in hair and was barely 1.20 m tall. I motioned to him. Immediately, he entered the saucer through a porthole and flew vertically. "Everything" disappeared very quickly in the clouds. I then noticed in the grass some skid marks produced by the craft."

This sighting took place on October 5.

But in this case, a grain of sand comes to make the mechanics creak: "On 10/7/54, Mr. Narcy, from Mertrud, confessed to having invented his story to be excused for being late in his work. It was unfortunately exceptional that the press published this denial." 7 Let us denounce here the lightness of the journalists of the time, their obvious lack of sincerity, their dishonesty,

7. Info Ovni n° 0.

in short, the pernicious way in which they treated the information: because the event having taken place on the 5th, the denial having been published on October 7th, the weekly "Radar", which devoted itself almost exclusively to the problem has published on October 17 the text that we just quoted. This state of affairs will not prevent J. Guieu from maintaining in his second edition of "Black out on the flying saucers" 8 (which he will sign on October 23, 1972) on page 133: "Let us recall that La Presse Magazine and Radar are the only weeklies to have had the courage to publish each week, during the resurgence of flying saucer activity in 1954, a long series of intelligent and objective articles on this problem."...

Tell me who you hang out with, I'll tell you who you are...!

54-48 Oct. 5, 1954 Morning Wassy, France Type B

Gregoire Oldut, 64, saw a golden-orange sphere with a cupola on top plunge from the sky, and after several bounces remain on the ground. A "creature 1 ; meter tall" emerged, then reentered, and the craft rose and disappeared.

Investigator:

Source: Paris Radar, 10/17/54.

5 October. Wassy, France. (morning)

Creature one meter tall.

A HumCat entry states: "Gregoire Oldut, 64, saw a golden-orange sphere with a cupola on top plunge from the sky, and after several bounces remain on the ground. A 'creature one meter tall' emerged, then reentered, and the craft rose and disappeared." (xx.)

(xx.) Paris, France. Radar. 17 October 54.

Encounters with Aliens on this Day

October 5

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1954 - In Wassy, France a golden-orange sphere with a dome on top plunged to the ground and bounced several times across a field this morning. The witness, Mr. G. Oldut, saw a one-meter tall dwarf emerge and then re-enter the craft. It rose up into the sky and disappeared. (Source: Paris Radar, October 17, 1954; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT Humanoid Report Database).

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*Oct. 5, 1954 - In Wassy, France a golden-orange sphere with a dome on top plunged to the ground and bounced several times across a field this morning. The witness, Mr. G. Oldut, saw a one-meter tall dwarf emerge and then re-enter the craft. It rose up into the sky and disappeared. (Source: Paris Radar, October 17, 1954; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: A Catalogue of Humanoid Reports).

Location: Wassy, France

Date: October 5 1954

Time: morning

A golden-orange sphere with a dome on top plunged to the ground and bounced several times across a field this morning. The witness, Mr. G. Oldut, saw a one-meter tall Dwarfin (Dwarf) merge and then re-enter the craft. It rose up into the sky and disappeared.

Source: David F Webb & Ted Bloecher HUMCAT, quoting Paris Radar October 17 1954

October 5 1954. Morning.

WASSY (HAUTE-MARNE : FRANCE)

Gregorie [sic] Oldut [sic] (64) was on his way to Wassy when suddenly behind a curtain of trees he saw a disc which descended to the ground, bounced a few times and then stayed on the ground. The thing was golden –orange in colour and surmounted by a dome. From it emerged a dwarf 1m tall. It then re-entered the object which took off into the sky.

• Paris Radar 11 October 1954.

So these two witnesses who did not know each other would have seen the same thing, drawn the same thing, and therefore would not have lied.

But:

• The two drawings of the witnesses are absolutely not identical (except if you took some LSD)
• According to Le Républican Lorrain, the sighting of Grégoire Oldut would have taken place on October 6 at 6 a.m., that André Narcy's would have taken place on the 5th at 7.15 a.m.
• Mr. Oldut entering the Wassy road from the "Babottes" was facing east. The curtain of trees at a place called "the Tuilerie" was for him, to the northeast, and therefore the object too. If Mr. Narcy came from Voillecomte he could well have seen the object before arriving at the Tuilerie, but it was supposed to come from Laneuville.
• The "painstakingly reconstructed" sketch shows a being in a spacesuit, whereas Mr. Narcy spoke of a hairy being resembling an orangutan.

There remains the observation of Mr. Oldut, or Odut, which would have taken place the next day at dawn at the Tuilerie. He might well have seen a meteor, but for his one-meter-tall creature, he only told Radar reporters his story after learning about André Narcy's.

However, we have already seen (case of Nivelle, from October 2 to 3, 1954), a witness recopy details given by others that the Press had mentioned. This brave Mr. Oldut obviously did not know that André Narcy had made up his story, and anyway, the dates and times do not match.