The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Voix du Nord, local issue of Béthune, France, page 5, on October 21, 1954.
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On Monday 18, around 9 p.m., Mr. Marcel Delobel, his daughter Mrs. Leleu and the young Georgine Leleu, escorting a guest on the doorstep, saw in the sky in the direction of Lillers, a luminous craft.
This fireball appeared to them for a few seconds, casting an intense light in its immediate surroundings that could suggest a flash of lightning and leaving behind a trail of sparks as it moved away.
Is this the mysterious craft seen by the residents of Bethune?