The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Liberté de l'Est, France, on September 10, 1954.
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Amiens. -- A bricklayer, Mr. Emile Renard, 27, and his worker, Mr. Yves de Gillabez, 23, claim to have seen in a field, about 200 meters from the road, near Acheux-en-Amiénois, a craft resembling a truncated millstone on which a sort of large, inverted plate had been placed.
The two men, who were riding bicycles, stated that they jumped off their bikes and ran towards the craft, which, they say, was gray and approximately ten meters in diameter. It was oscillating slightly, and a sort of closed door was visible on its side. The craft made no sound.
According to the account of Messrs. Renard and Gillabez, the craft took off after they had already traveled about fifty meters. Smoke was escaping from a kind of pipe located at its underside. After a diagonal flight of about fifteen meters, the craft became vertical and disappeared.
The two men were questioned at the Acheux-en-Amlénois gendarmerie and then taken to the location where they claimed to have seen the craft. No trace of it was found at the scene.
