The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Croix du Nord, Lille, Pas-de-Calais, France, page 5, October 19, 1954.
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Saturday evening, around 9:30 p.m., the chief Decrequy and the gendarme Candelle, of the brigade of Foncquevillers, controlled [sic] the identity of a household of fairground merchants who had stopped their trailer on the village square of Pommier.
Suddenly, the woman noticed a luminous object which passed in the sky. Indeed, the two gendarmes as well as Mr. Dumetz, municipal councilor of Pommier, who was near there clearly saw a luminous craft of orange hue which moved quickly from East to West at an altitude of approximately 300 meters. After 4 to 5 seconds, the phenomenon disappeared from their sight.
Mr. Marcel Hanske, trumpeter and professor at the Ecole Municipal [sic] in Louvroil saw with his wife and young son around 9:20 on Saturday, as he went to bed a "ball of fire" crossing the sky at breakneck speed.
Mr. Marcel Hanske who is trustworthy, lives in rue des Alliés, in Maubeuge and Sunday, with real sincerity, he did not fail to report the matter to his friends in the Harmonie of Louvroil.
