The article below was published in the daily newspaper Abbeville Libre, Abbeville, France, page 1, on October 8, 1954.
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In the century of flying saucers
Two young people saw this
mysterious apparatus on a road near Vron
It's the talk of the day.
"Did you see a flying saucer?"
No... and you... However, I seemed to me that I saw something strange, said a sales representative to a customer in our town these past few days.
And you gendarmes, who are often on tour day and night, did you see anything?
- Absolutely nothing...
And yet, there are some of these mysterious craft in the Picardy sky... of different shapes... and little men who, dressed in spacesuits, wander around this craft which transmitted electric rays making the approach difficult.
It is Friday, around 6:45 p.m., that two young men from Vron, Bernard Duvoisin and René Condette, 18 years old, who were returning from their work site following the road from Ligescourt to Vron, had their attention attracted to a craft... which had landed on the path they were following by bicycle.
This craft was orange, and how was this mysterious craft?
bell-shaped, they said.
And when we were about 70 meters from it, this bee hive ... without bees, but supposedly containing two little men, flew away and disappeared into the horizon.
So, everywhere cigars, saucers, basins, discs, light trails and odd people are seen...
The future will tell us what these craft are... but we remain skeptical while awaiting events.
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Sunday, around 9:10 p.m., Mr. Georges Galand, butcher in Rue, who drove a car and had his wife by his side, was at a place called "Pont-à-Cailloux", Quend territory, when he saw a strange craft having the shaped like a cigar.
Having slowed down the speed of his car to better observe it, he noticed that this machine was flying at a reduced speed and at low altitude. This is how the Galland couple were able to follow it for eight kilometers.
It then turned towards Saint-Quentin-en-Tourmon.
Also, Mr. Georges Savary, of Rue, also had his attention attracted by the presence of a machine, having the shape of a red disc, which, according to his declarations, would have landed in a grassland about 400 meters from his home.
This craft would have left a few minutes later, in the direction of Le Crotoy. No traces were found at the landing site.
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Around 9:10 p.m., Mr. Carton, employed at the Saint-Frères factory, in Abbeville and living in Grand-Lavier, saw in the sky, about 8 to 10 kilometers away, in the direction of Noyelles-sur-Mer, a ball of fire, spinning and giving the clear impression of changing color.
This ball had the shape of two thirds of the moon and did not seem to fly at a crazy pace, since during a few minutes he followed it with the eyes as well as the Lecomte couple and two other people.
Then this mysterious ball... disappeared in the direction of Boulogne.
