The article below was published in the daily newspaper France Soir, Paris, France, page 3, on November 3, 1954.
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NANCY, November 2 (report from "France-Soir").
A young man from Lorraine, a professional photographer, Mr. Jean Gérault, twenty-three years old, residing in Sarreguemines, claims to have seen, near this town, between Forbach and Saint-Avold, a flying saucer, of which he took four photographs that were handed over to a newspaper in Nancy.
It was at night that Mr. Jean Gérault, who completed his military service as a certified aviation photographer at Base 135 in Cognac (Charente), reportedly saw a craft hovering motionless above a meadow, 1.50 meters from the ground. From the mysterious craft, topped with a dome, emanated an orange glow, according to the young man. Mr. Jean Gérault had just taken his fourth photo when the saucer ascended diagonally and disappeared. This occurred last Saturday. However, the photographer was not in a hurry to make his astonishing adventure public - which may seem surprising - as he waited until the All Saints' Day holidays to develop his film in his father's laboratory, his father also being a photographer in Vézelise (Meurthe-et-Moselle).
