The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Akron Beacon Journal, Akron, Ohio, USA, on page 2, on October 18, 1954.
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LILLE, France (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."