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The 1954 French flap in the Press:

The article below was published in the daily newspaper Libre Artois, Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France, page 4, on October 5, 1954.

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A "flying cigar"
WAS REPORTEDLY SEEN
in Comines

In Comines, Thursday around 10:30 p.m., a mysterious craft flew over a part of the city.

We met with Adjutant Cocquel and Constable Segars, both judicial police officers from the Comines brigade, who heard at length on Saturday morning, the witness to this appearance; in this case Mr. Anicet Corneillie, mason worker living in Comines, rue des trois Ballots. Here are the facts:

Coming home Thursday around 10:30 p.m., Mr. Corneillie was suddenly surprised by the purple reflections that shimmered on the jacket with which he was adorned. Looking up, he saw at a height of forty meters, a craft in the shape of a cigar, which emitted a rather bright gleam. According to the witness, the craft might have been 8 to 10 meters long and 2 to 3 meters wide. At the same time, a motorist from Tourcoing observed the same phenomenon.

This was happening at the intersection of the streets of the Apothicaire and the Processions, the mysterious machine seeming to be heading towards the hamlet of the Vieil Dieu.

Frightened, Mr. Corneillie quickly returned home and it was not until the next day that he entrusted the matter to his comrades. Long questioned yesterday by MM. Cocquel and Segers, the witness still under the effect of emotion, told the facts that we just reported. The gendarmes of the Comines brigade, while recording Mr. Corneillie's statements, acknowledged the witness's excellent good faith on Thursday evening.

... AND A SAUCER
IN ROUBAIX

According to statements made to us by residents of Roubaix who wished to remain anonymous, the night of September 14-15, around 3:20 a.m., a flying saucer was reportedly seen in the northwest of the city, at a fairly high altitude.

The husband says he saw a kind of very shiny disc, below which one could see a kind of luminous and transparent cylinder.

His wife, whom he had woken up, declared to have seen a red ball surrounded by green, the colors being very beautiful besides. It was nothing like the stars, and they were able to observe the mysterious object for a period estimated at 30-40 seconds, then the disc went up vertically and disappeared.

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