The article below was published in the daily newspaper Feuille d'Avis, of Neuchatel, Switzerland, on September 10, 1954.
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ARRAS. - Two masons, MM. Emile Renard, 27, and Yves de Gillaboz, domiciled in Acheux-en-Amiénois (the Somme), said they observed a "flying saucer" at the exit of the village of Harponville.
"The thing, they said, was in a field, 200 meters from the road. It looked like a huge upturned plate, was gray, and measured ten meters. We dropped our bikes and we started to run in the direction of the machine which was sometimes leaning left, sometimes leaning to the right. On the surface a kind of wider than high door could be seen, and carefully closed.
"While we were still a hundred meters of the saucer, the latter began to rise obliquely, without noise, letting an acrid smoke escape through a tube placed below. Having reached 15 meters height, this weird machine rose in a straight line rather quickly and eventually disappeared. We believed we were dreaming..."
The two men, interviewed separately by the police, provided the same report of what they claim to have seen.
