The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Bourgogne Républicaine, Dijon, France, on September 26, 1952.
Three children, a Venetian lantern and a kite mystified the entire population of Wasquehal, between Lille and Roubaix, on Tuesday evening.
It was around 7:30 p.m. that a strange apparition appeared above the city. Soon hundreds of residents were outside watching what they believed to be a flying saucer, a sort of ball that hovered in the sky casting an orange light. The craft rose, descended, stopped and then took off again. Suddenly, the flying saucer disappeared towards the east. It was only a simple Venetian lantern that three children had attached to a kite whose string reached about 300 meters.
