The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Journal du Pas-de-Calais et de la Somme, France, page 4, on September 17, 1954.
See the case file.
The flying saucer of Estrées-Deniécourt, near Amiens, was just a joke by a few electricians from a company in the city who admitted that they wanted to have fun at the expense of the press and gendarmerie.
A fine ticket had been written up for contempt of court and a report has been forwarded to the Public Prosecutor of Amiens.