The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Haut-Marnais Républicain, France, on October 10, 1954.
While Mr. Gaston Etienne, from Bourdons, and Mr. Paul Sponhauer, from Consigny, were preparing to have lunch in the quarry where they worked, in the territory of Consigny, on Tuesday morning at 8 a.m., their attention was drawn to the presence in the sky, heading north, and going from east to west, of a craft in the shape of a cigar slightly narrowed in the middle, in a vertical position, with multiple and changing colors where blue and green dominated, and which shone at intervals in the sun.
They watched this "cigar" for a few minutes as it moved slowly at some height.
The appearance of these mysterious craft in many regions therefore continues to fascinate the populations.
