The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Nouveau Nord Maritime, France, page 3, on September 14, 1954.
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Valenciennes, 12. - A "flying saucer", as two workers from the Amiens region claim to have seen, reportedly landed in Quarouble, near Valenciennes, according to Mr. Marius Dewilde, 34, a worker at the A.N.F. of Blanc-Misseron.
Mr. Dewilde, who occupies a gatekeeper's house, along a disused railway track, in Quarouble, was at home on Friday, around 10 p.m., when, intrigued by his dog's barking, he went outside.
Mr. Dewilde saw, on the track, "an oval mass in the shape of a dome which could be about six meters long and three meters high". Pointing an electric lamp in another direction, he saw "two strange beings, small - no more than a meter - and stocky. They had large heads on which the ray of my lamp was reflected, as if it were was a glass globe. Dumbfounded, I also saw a square of bright light opening on the side of the craft. Frightened this time I closed my eyes for a moment. When I opened them again, the light had disappeared and the machine, swaying slightly, climbed vertically, giving off smoke."
The police, alerted, did not find any trace of the craft.
