The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Voix du Nord, local issue of Béthune, France, page 6, on October 21, 1954.
In one of our last issues we pointed out to our readers that Mr. Potel and his family had seen a flying saucer during the night.
It is now a cigar-shaped craft that was sighted, on the evening of October 15, around 8:35 p.m., by Mr. André Lenoir, production manager at the Noeux factories. The sky suddenly lit up and Mr. Lenoir, as well as several people who were in the rue nationale, saw this luminous craft for a few moments, then saw it disappear at high speed.
At the same time, several people living in Sailly-Labourse reportedly also saw this phenomenon.