The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Courrier Picard, Montdidier issue, France, on October 23, 1954.
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Will saucer disease spread further and become a real contagion? You might think so since every day brings us its new craft.
The most recent is said to have landed in the heart of the village of L...-lès-L... - a small town, however, usually, peaceful and uneventful...
It was the evening. The moon was in full swing. A local craftsman returned happy and content. All day long, he had celebrated his patron, a most revered saint on the calendar. So he went, his heart in celebration, a bacchanal look on his lips.
Suddenly alert! In the very village spread a large plate of orange-colored light. "a saucer! A saucer!" the man cried instinctively.
On all sides one came running.
Alas! It was simply the pond of the country that the moon, with all its brightness, was positively igniting.
Everyone laughed, the confusion was so grotesque. Alone, our craftsman kept his conviction. A drunken man never gives up on his idea.
"I assure you that it is a saucer! and a real one!"
- Hey! well, go see, immediately said the local blacksmith, a not always convenient redhead.
And a flurry to send the saucers lover into the midst of the phosphorescent water...
For a cup, it was a cup, and well served, you know!
He swore, this time, that one would never get him again...
In the meantime everyone is talking about it and lo and behold, the newspaper is getting involved!
