The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Berry Républicain, Bourges, France, page 10, on October 23, 1954.
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Epinal, October 22. -- A worker from Saint-Rémy (Vosges), Mr. Louis Ujvari, 40 years old, told the gendarmes that last Wednesday, around 3 a.m., he was stopped on the road by an unknown man of strong build and medium height, wearing a gray jacket with shiny insignia on the shoulders.
The man spoke an unknown language. Mr. Ujvari, a Czech national, tried speaking Russian as a last resort. His interlocutor understood him. "Where am I?" he asked. "In Italy, in Spain?" He then inquired about the distance to the German border and asked for the time. When the worker told him it was around 2:30 a.m., the man took out a watch from his jacket, which showed 4:00 a.m.
He ordered the worker to move forward. Soon, Ujvari saw, in the middle of the road, a craft shaped like two plates turned upside down against each other, with a sort of periscope emerging from it.
When he was about thirty meters from the craft, which was approximately 1.5 meters high and 2.5 meters wide, the stranger told him to step away. However, glancing back from time to time, Mr. Ujvari was able to see the craft slowly rise vertically with a sound similar to a sewing machine. Upon reaching an altitude of 500 meters, it leveled off and disappeared.
