The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Journal de Lillers, Lillers, Pas-de-Calais, France, page 1, on November 12, 1954.
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The flying saucers made a victim: Mr. Neyret, farmer in Tain-l'Hermitage, that one of his neighbors mistook for a Martian.
In the dark, his neighbor, a winegrower, had seen a silhouette which seemed "extraordinary" to him. "He is a Martian", he said to himself, he armed himself with a stick and struck redoubtedly the poor Mr. Neyret who has an unstuck ear and found himself obliged to consult a doctor.