The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Croix du Nord, Lille, Pas-de-Calais, France, page 1, November 5, 1954.
See the case file.
The flying saucers made a victim, Mr. Neyret, farmer in Tain-L'Hermitage, whom one of his neighbors had mistaken for a Martian.
In the darkness, his neighbor, a winegrower, had seen a silhouette which seemed "extraordinary" to him. "He's a Martian," he said to himself. He armed himself with a stick and struck redoubled hits on poor Mr. Neyret, who has an torn away ear and had to consult a doctor.