The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Républicain Lorrain, Nancy, France, page 1, on October 4, 1954.
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In the Nord...
LILLE. -- Mr. Anicet Corneille, a farm worker, said he saw yesterday evening in Comines a machine in the shape of a cigar, 8 to 10 meters long and 3 meters wide, which was flying at a height of about forty meters and gave off a bright purple glow; after flying over the city for a few seconds, the craft disappeared into the sky.
Mr. Corneille's statements were confirmed by a motorist from Tourcoing passing through Comines.
...and in Brittany
SAINT-BRIEUC. -- Several people claimed to have seen, 300 or 400 meters away from them, Saturday evening, around 8:45 p.m., a "flying cigar", at an altitude of about 50 meters. The craft, they said, could be 15 meters long and intermittently lit up with pink lights; it moved silently.
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BREST. -- Mrs. Henry, a farmer in Guesnou (Finistère) claimed to have seen, on Thursday, then Friday, in the evening at the same time, in the sky, a purple cylindrical craft which moved silently from west to east.
