The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Voix du Nord, local issue of Boulogne, France, page 5, on October 15, 1954.
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The surprise felt by Mr. Emile Turpin, district manager at the S.N.C.F. of Boulogne in the afternoon of October 10, seeing near Ambleteuse, in the sky a silent and fast craft that he managed to photograph was perhaps not much larger than that caused the document published in "La Voix du Nord" on Thursday.
This is indeed the first valid photograph of interest to our region that has been published so far and of which we got to ensure the authenticity the negative prints.
Mr. Turpin who is 34 years old is passionate about natural sciences. It was while waling in the dunes of La Pointe-aux-Oies that this researcher - who was going to photograph a cave where in 1937 were discovered skeletons dating from the Neolithic period - had the good fortune to produce two unique documents.
He used a 24/36 format camera with a diaphragm of 6.3 and he operated at a speed of one hundredth of a second.
Mr. Turpin, who was a student pilot in 1939-1940 and who has totaled two hundred flight hours, is not entirely ignorant of aeronautics.
He could not put any name on the craft he saw. In satisfactory visibility conditions. This was indeed about 10 kilometers, if we are to believe the meteorological observations made in the afternoon of October 2.
