The article below was published in the daily newspaper Franc-Tireur, Paris, France, page 6, on September 13, 1954.
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Valenciennes, September 12. -- A resident of Carouble [sic], near Valenciennes, Mr. Marius Dewilve [sic], 34 years old, witnessed a startling scene on Friday night around 10 p.m. Awakened by his dog’s barking, he saw “a dark, oval mass about six meters long” on the railway tracks near his home. Moments later, he observed “two men, each less than a meter tall, with short, shining heads that looked like glass globes.”
A few seconds later, the two strange beings entered the craft, on which a square of intense light had appeared. The witness then closed his eyes, and when he reopened them, everything had vanished.
The air police, who visited the site yesterday, found no trace of the incident. Investigators are puzzled as to why these Martians—or perhaps Venusians—who seem to visit us so frequently, would have chosen to land so recklessly on a railway line.
