The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Croix du Nord, Lille, Pas-de-Calais, France, page 5, 5 octobre 1954.
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- Oh! A saucer!
- No, it's a balloon.
- And I tell you it's a saucer!
... I would have liked him to be right, because, you will believe me if you want, I have never had the chance to see a single saucer, a flying saucer of course. But alas, it was really a balloon.
It gets really annoying, everyone sees flying saucers, or at least cigars imbued with indecisive gleams, everyone... except us, the journalists!
And they come to me at the newsroom.
- I, Sir, saw last night around nine o'clock, near the door of Bethune, "something that emitted a red glow"...
- You're lucky, I wish it was me...
- Laugh, laugh, don't you believe me?
- But I just want to believe, show me your "something" with its "red glow", so I also can see what it looks like.
- You can imagine that "it" is gone, since Sunday evening, but I can introduce you to someone who saw the occupants come out of the "thing".
- Huh! ...
And here we go, going to the witness'.
The "witness" saw nothing, but it was his son... This boy returned to the local school, telling that the teacher had seen, Sunday evening, a saucer land, from where came out little men no higher than that, dressed in shiny spacesuits...
All this, of course, is the kid's say.
But I will end up believing, me, in these saucer stories! If you find one, bring it to me, we have it examined and if you find it too heavy, at least bring the Martian.
The next day, we will make you a paper like that, in the newspaper and with a convincing photo, moreover.
Fashion is with flying saucers and cigars. These mysterious craft disturb the most balanced minds and often fanciful comments mark the appearance of these flying "machines."
In the evening from Saturday to Sunday, two residents of Jeumont wishing to remain anonymous, but whose good faith cannot be doubted for those who know them, stated to have seen while they were driving on rue de Solre-le-Château, in Jeumont, a strange-shaped craft in the sky; this saucer-shaped object, after having moved for a few seconds above the city, went up to vertically and was soon out of sight.
Sunday, around 8:30 p.m., Miss Anne-Marie Pérut, 20, saw from her bedroom window in Cambrai, above the Couillet wood, a large fireball accompanied by another smaller one below.
She warns her father, a gendarme at the Marcoing brigade, who was very incredulous.
Shortly after, having left the house, he saw the same phenomenon which could be examined by his colleagues, their families and passers-by.
Originally, the fireballs had a spherical then elliptical shape. After a quarter of an hour, they disappeared, came back to disappear definitively in the form of a crescent.
Note that the same phenomenon was observed, at the same time, between Iwuy and Escaudoeuvres.
Sunday, around 9:30 p.m., a mysterious machine was seen a few kilometers from Armentières.
The object appeared in the form of a golden half-moon, crossed in the center by a greenish line. It hovered above rue Fleury, at la Chapelle d'Armentières.
It was widely observed by the inhabitants of this district, one of whom provided himself with binoculars to better examine the contours of the "saucer."
But, soon, the luminous form disappeared in the direction of Fleurbaix (Pas-de-Calais).
