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A roadmender discovers a flying saucer in Haute-Marne

"A hairy little being was standing beside the machine," said the witness.

SAINT-DIZIER. - The affair of flying objects takes considerable proportions. There is a true epidemic of varied visions which nevertheless coincide strangely on some features.

We will leave it to others to settle down and we will confine ourselves whenever possible, to giving the testimonies in their integrity because we believe that in the face of these phenomena we are still at the stage of pure and simple observation.

No one can prove the non-existence of the flying objects and those who saw them assert their existence. The latter are of a certain number now, and most of them are honest people who are incapable of hoaxing. Among them is Mr. Andr Narcy, aged 48, father of 7 children, a roadmender at the Ponts-et-Chauss es for 19 years, living in Mertrud, near Wassy (the Haute-Marne). Mr. Narcy witnessed a strange appearance yesterday morning. An appearance that adds an element to the already voluminous file of the unknown flying objects. Mr. Narcy had left his house early to go on a motorcycle to a construction site of the Ponts et Chauss es between Voillecomte and Wassy. He took the road Laneuville to R my - Voillecomte and it is between these two villages that he saw the phenomenal thing. Let him speak:

"It was 7:15 a.m. while I was riding, I was approaching the old Tuilerie, a place where, on my left in the fields, I saw something od orange color, I thought it was a canvas on the ground or the tent of a camper, but suddenly my heart shocked and I realized that it was a machine, I stopped, put my bike against the barrier, passed under the barbed wire and ran into the pasture in the direction of the thing, the machine was posed on the ground at the bottom of a basin where once the clay was extracted for the tile factory now in ruins. By far, I had only seen the Flying Saucer's top, it now appeared to me in full. I was about 100 meters away and began to distinguish all the details when I saw a person standing next to the craft. He seemed to me entirely covered with hairs, or else he wore a tight coat of fur, and around his waist he wore a sort of broad orange corset, and on his head he had a kind of teddy-toque. He was motionless and seemed to look at me. I could not make out his face features. Suddenly I became aware that I was alone in front of him. I was afraid and stopped running. Making a gesture, I questioned him. Then he rushed into his machine very quickly. I could see clearly when he leaned in to enter through a round porthole, that he had arms. I had plenty of time to see the saucer accurately. It was spherical in shape with an approximate diameter of 10 meters. Below this sphere I saw a sort of spindle. The round porthole was between the sphere and the spindle. It closed on the little being and I saw a kind of smoke from one end of the spindle as there was a big vaporous eddy under the Saucer that rose vertically. Everything disappeared very quickly in the clouds. I had heard only a kind of rustling comparable to that of an electric motor."

Immediately, Mr. Narcy went back to his motorcycle and went to his job as soon as possible. There his comrades, seeing his pale face, asked him if he had been in an accident. M. Narcy recounted his adventure, and, accompanied by two others, Messrs. Louis Riel and Henri, returned to the scene. At the very spot of the apparition, the three men noticed that the morning dew no longer existed on a large surface where it had been dried. The grass seemed to have been packed on a square of 3 by 3 meters, all the approaches being clearly visible. This herb had a milky appearance. Besides, there were a dozen broad traces, like two hands each, round, deeper on one side than the other. The traces went to the ground. In the same land each trail was 50 cm apart, on the other, and these lands were themselves separated by 1 m. 50 approximately.

They were scattered in a straight line from the described quadrilateral. Higher up, it looks like the mysterious machine made six jumps before it came to rest. One of these traces seemed to indicate a skid on 40 centimeters...