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UFOs in the daily Press:

The 1954 French flap in the Press:

The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Voix Du Nord, France, page 5,on October 19, 1954.

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The Saucer
(It again!)
had nothing to do with it...

There was quite a stir these past few days, or rather, one of these past few nights, on Rue de la Flaque, where residents along the Helpe River were jolted awake by a resounding crash. The next day, an impressive semicircular scar was spotted on the slates of a roof ridge of the Textiles de l'Helpe buildings.

How can this strangely imprinted mark be explained?

They searched and eventually discovered - provisionally - that it could only have been a flying saucer which, losing speed, had attempted an unfortunate and brutal landing on the roof of the spinning mill.

Unfortunately, this timely explanation had to be abandoned very quickly, because in the Helpe River at the foot of the factory buildings, they found not a fragment of an aerial craft, but a prosaic iron semicircle that had fallen from the top of a chimney of the spinning mill.

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