The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Courrier de Saône-et-Loire, France, page 4, on September 10, 1954.
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ARRAS. -- Two bricklayer craftsmen, Mr. Emile Renard, 27 years old, and Yves de Gillaboz, residents of Acheux-en-Amiénois (Somme), observed a "flying saucer" on the outskirts of the village of Harponville.
"The object," they said, "was in a field 200 meters from the road. It looked like an enormous upside-down plate, was gray in color, and measured about ten meters. We abandoned our bicycles and started running toward the craft, which at times tilted to the left, then to the right. On its surface, one could make out a kind of door, wider than it was tall, and tightly shut.
"When we were still about a hundred meters from the saucer, it began to rise diagonally, without a sound, emitting a pungent smoke from a tube located underneath. Once it reached about 15 meters in height, this strange craft rose in a straight line rather quickly and eventually disappeared. We thought we were dreaming..."
The two men, questioned separately by the gendarmes, gave the same account of what they claim to have seen.
