The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Croix du Nord, Arras and Béthune local issue, Pas-de-Calais, France, page 2, on October 6, 1954.
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Finally, I saw... I saw a man who observed a saucer. Not a story with thirty-six middlemen, miners rumors or a fable built on gossip from workshops nope. Solid, a conscious observer, a sensible as well as disturbing statement.
What does the report say? Sunday around 9:00 p.m., our man was walking on line 73, in the company of his wife. Near the easel of pit XV, in the direction of the Lorette plateau, he saw the object. A sort of basin dominated by a dome-like thing, all appearing of respectable dimensions, given the approximate distance and glowing like a forge. Where the case gets thicker is that after a certain time, not assessable, broke away from this saucer - since it must be called by its name - like a "sausage" and the two craft remained motionless. This hovering lasted so long that the observer and his wife resolved to return to their homes as if nothing had happened.
I am now well advanced to have seen a man who saw a saucer, then tired of watching went to bed. He did not ask me to believe him and told the phenomenon without insisting too much, with the air of apologizing for having been a solitary witness. (On the other side of the plateau, others also saw it.)
Finally, he promised to warn me next time. Whether it's a disc, a strombohedron, a cage-bed or even a carpet, whatever, I want to see, see I tell you.
