The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Voix du Nord, issue for the Artois and the Somme, France, page 6, on November 7, 1954.
A few saucers have still been seen in the Picardy sky during the last 48 hours. Two workers from the Delprat company, from Albert, passing through the wood of Moreuil, saw a yellow globe which remained motionless in the sky then suddenly plunged towards the ground, leaving a luminous trail.
In Amiens, in the Saint-Anne district, a dazzling disc was spotted moving in the sky of the city. Finally, yesterday Saturday morning, several people and in particular traders living near the gendarmerie, also saw a disc move at high altitude. The phenomenon was said to have lasted 10 minutes. But when the gendarmes, alerted, looked, the saucer had disappeared...