The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Voix du Nord, issue of the Somme, France, page 5, on October 22, 1954.
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In all regions of the Somme, flying saucers appear and we receive numerous testimonies every day. Most of the witnesses do not seek publicity since they refuse to let their names be published.
This is the case for a Finance official, who circulated by scooter in the region of Moreuil, who saw a mysterious craft posed at the ground circular in shape and which rose rapidly in a shower of sparks. In Amiens, about fifty people, at the corner of rue de Croy and rue Jules-Barni, followed the moves of a craft which finally disappeared after having sent a green ray which remained for a long time impressed on the retina of the "earthlings".
A P.T.T. conveyor who was in a train near Curchy, also saw a silver disc moving in the sky at high altitude. A young woman, Miss Francine Leblond, from Amiens, claims to have seen a luminous cigar pass in the evening above Amiens.
But the most interesting observations lead us to the region of Ham where a curious but not new phenomenon was observed: when a mysterious machine passed, the engine of a moped stopped. Here are the details:
Marc and Gilles Lemaire, from Croix-Moligneaux, and Jean Yvart, from Douilly, went to Ham in the evening to work in a sugar factory. Mr. Yvart was the first to notice a kind of flaming cone moving in the sky. Marc Lemaire and Jean Yvart arriving at the Bois de Sancours, then saw an orange mass which was moving from East to West. As the craft was exactly vertical to Mr. Marc Lemaire, his motorcycle failed the ignition and therefore the headlight no longer worked. M. Yvart's Machine was also a victim of the same phenomenon. A second later, the motorcycles and cyclos having continued their momentum regained the use of their engines and the headlights resumed their functions: the craft was already moving away fairly quickly.
The gendarmerie has been notified; they are investigating.
