The article below was published in the daily newspaper Feuille d'Avis, of Lausanne, Switzerland, on October 19, 1954.
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LILLE, 17. -- Mr. Maurice Ruant, a farmer in Sinceny, close to Chauny (Aisne), was nearly a victim of the panic caused to some people by the appearances of saucers.
Sunday night, he was busy repairing his car in a field near his home when two shots of a hunting shotgun were fired in his direction. The shot crashed into the vehicle body, not far from his head. Maurice Ruant filed a complaint and the investigation opened immediately made it possible to quickly find the author of the two shots; who was a neighbor to Mr. Ruant, Mr Faisant.
The latter told the police:
"I thought, seeing a silhouette moving in the light of two headlights, being in the presence of a Martian repairing a flying saucer. I went for my gun and I fired it."
Despite his good faith, Mr. Faisan will be prosecuted.
