The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Voix du Nord, local issue of Cambrai, France, page 6, on October 19, 1954.
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Saturday, October 16, around 9:30 p.m., a flying object in the shape of a cigar and giving off a trail of flames of about 10 meters hovered over the town for ten minutes then headed for Caudry.
Many trustworthy people saw this phenomenon in particular Mr. Ernest Burge, a former forest ranger who admired it for some time and is able to provide details that it would take too long to list here.