The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Berry Républicain, Bourges, France, page 1, on November 25, 1954.
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Hazebrouck, November 24. -- Mr. Michel Leynart, a driver for the Comptoir Lignier in Hazebrouck, 39 years old, was traveling by bus on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday to Aire-sur-la-Lys to pick up female workers from the company.
It was around 4 a.m. when, near Boeseghem, he saw an object in the shape of a saucer approaching him at high speed. Frightened, he parked his bus behind a house, and when the phenomenon had disappeared, he resumed his journey. In Aire-sur-la-Lys, the workers he picked up recounted having seen the same phenomenon, as did the driver of a truck traveling the same route as Mr. Leynart.
Upon returning to Hazebrouck, Mr. Leynart went to report his sighting to the police commissioner, who opened an investigation. This ultimately led to the identification of a few pranksters who, on the occasion of the Wittes fair, had launched several parachute rockets into the sky, the remnants of which were later found on the ground.
