The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Parisien Libéré, France, on January 25, 1974.
VALENCIENNES. -- UFO traces were seen the other evening by a resident of Denain, near Valenciennes.
"It was around 7:30 p.m. when I saw 2 luminous objects in the sky, which were heading in the south-north direction," said Mr. Franco Pavonne, who specified that the craft, which was moving moved silently, could not, under any circumstances, be an airplane.
Still according to the witness, the 2 balls, with an orange and sometimes blinding glow, did not give the impression of following a well-defined trajectory.
Thus, in less than a month, unidentified flying objects have appeared on numerous occasions in the Nord region, notably in Maubeuge, Hulluch, Féchain and Denain.