The article below was published in the daily newspaper St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, on page 1, on October 28, 1954.
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LILLE, France, Oct. 18 (UP) -- Maurice Ruant got out of his stalled auto to examine the motor and was narrowly missed by pellets from two shotgun shells.
An excited neighbor explained: "When I saw a man standing in the light of a machine I thought it was a Martian repairing his flying saucer."