The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Voix du Nord, Cambrai local issue, France, page 5, on october 6, 1954.
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Monday, around 11:45 p.m., three young people from Saulzoir were returning by bike from the cinema of Villers-en-Cauchiers, Cauchies.
Between Villers and Saulzoir, they saw, about fifteen meters from the road, placed in a pasture, a mass of aluminum color surrounded by two very bright blue-green bands. The object may have been 1.50 m. to 2 m. wide by 1 m. to 1.50 m. tall.
Seized with a sudden fright, the young people pedaled more vigorously and could not give more details on the craft. A little further, however, they stopped, but saw nothing, either that the object had disappeared, or that it was hidden by an accident of the ground or the trees which border the road.
The brother of one of the young people who passed about a quarter of an hour on the same route later saw nothing.
Note that the good faith of young people seems beyond doubt.