The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Courrier Picard, édition de Montdidier, France, page 4, le 1er novembre 1954.
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Finally! One of our fellow citizens saw something. Saturday, around 3 in the morning, Mr. Marcel Réty, grocer, place de l'Hotel-de-Ville, who went to the market of Amiens saw in the sky, not without some fright - he humbly evokes - "a kind of wheel of auto volante ", very bright, yellow rather than orange, which moved without any noise at high speed in the south-north direction.
Our friendly trader estimates that the craft was moving at least at two thousand meters of altitude. He now believes in flying saucers.