The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Voix du Nord, local issue of the Artois and the Somme, France, page 5, on October 17, 1954.
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We reported yesterday under what conditions several farmers in the hamlet of Hardinval, near Doullens, had their attention drawn by a mysterious machine which they were able to follow for quite a long time. We can complete our information by adding that one of these cultivators saw the machine descend slowly; in the descent the spinning of the apparatus ceased. The saucer came to a stop some 30 meters above the ground, and 200 meters from where Mr. Percheval was. Jets of colored vapor issued from the craft and lit the ground. The ball remained motionless for ten minutes, then spun in place and shot away straight into the sky.
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A spectacle even more hallucinating than the one noticed by Mr. and Mrs. Dumeige, cattle brokers, in Domart-en-Ponthieu, and Mr. Lourdel, also a livestock broker, in Condé - Folie. They saw a bright saucer landing in a field, a short distance from the road they were on. Mr. and Mrs. Dumeige and Mr. Lourdel got off their
