UFOs in the daily Press:

Near Aire-sur-la-Lys,
a coach driver
of Hazebrouck
had encountered
a flying saucer
... but it was
only a prank

A driver from Comptoir Linier d'Hazebrouck, Mr. Michel Leynaert, 39, living on rue de Merville had left on Tuesday night, with a coach to take care of workers from Aire-sur-la-Lys.

Around 4 a.m., around the village of Boeseghem, he saw, coming to meet him, a violent and imposing gleam in the shape of a "Saucer" which was moving fast.

As the "thing" got closer and closer to him, the man was panicked, sheltered his coach behind a house and stopped his engine.

When the phenomenon had disappeared, Mr. Leynaert resumed the trip and met a little further, a truck from the Debaets house in Aire-sur-la-Lys whose driver admitted having witnessed the same phenomenon.

In their turn, the young girls, taken in by the coach, told an identical story.

Mr. Leynaert immediately notified the Chief Police Commissioner of Hazebrouck Mr. Gouriou, who opened an investigation. The result was the identification of the jokers who would organised this farce.

On the occasion of the Wittes Fair, some happy chaps had imagined launching into the sky rockets - parachutes whose vestiges were also found on the ground by the Debraets truck driver.

These remains were handed over to the police commissioner of Saint-Omer.