The article below was published in the daily newspaper Nord-Eclair, Roubaix, Nord, France, page 10, on October 12, 1954.
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THE FLYING SAUCERS swirled on Sunday in the Mediterranean basin, above Cameroon, Germany, and of course, France. Near us, it is in Lys-lez-Lannoy, that about fifty people saw, Sunday evening, a phenomenon of this kind.
Indeed, around 8:15 p.m., Mr. René Duhaut, rushed back to the cafe run by Mr. Fernand Risselin 139, rue du Colisée, shouting: "Come see, a flying saucer!"
Thirty consumers rushed outside and attended an unusual show. In the sky, an orange ball coming from the direction of Lille and moving towards Leers-Nord (B) swelled gradually to diminish then progressively in its celestial course.
The phenomenon - according to the concordant statements of several people - lasted two minutes.
Authorized testimonies also arrive from Yaounde, where the director of hygiene services, the hospital chief doctor, the adviser of the territorial Assembly of Cameroon, and the deputy mayor saw a huge disc violently illuminated, stationary at an altitude of about six hundred meters. The apparition lasted fifteen seconds.
In Beirut, a salesman and a journalist saw a red ball moving in the sky.
In Alexandria, a mysterious craft stayed in the air for an hour above the control tower of Muzha airfield.
Mr. Gibbons of Nelson (New Zealand) took a series of photographs of three saucers that appeared as cylindrical objects with a sort of dark kernel on the telephoto lens.
Saturday evening, Mr. Hoge, a film operator, was returning home, near Munster, in Westphalia. He saw a blue light in a field, sixty meters from the road.
This came from an object shaped like a cigar.
Four men about 1.20 meters tall, in rubber overalls, were working under the apparatus. None of them said a word. Mr. Hoge, seized with fear, watched the work for ten minutes, of the little men who had a strongly developed torso with a big head, while their lower limbs were small and thin. Finally the four "men" returned to the cigar with a kind of ladder. A few meters after taking off the cigar took the form of a saucer, projecting a dazzling light.
Near Frankfurt, thirteen gliding enthusiasts, including former Luftwaffe pilots, formally claim to have seen a "silver disc" at an altitude of three thousand meters.
Other craft were also seen near Angoulême, Carcassonne, Limoges and Poitiers.
