The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Voix du Nord, local issue of Dunkerque, France, page 4, on October 24, 1954.
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Will Mont Cassel add to its other titles of glory that of the first landing site for a flying saucer? The question can be asked now since three people claim to have seen a saucer land at some distance from the Château Masson, between Cassel and the Mont des Récollets.
Friday, around 7:15 a.m., Mrs. Bachelier, 27 years old, living on avenue Albert-Mahieu, in Cassel, reportedly saw from her home (that is to say several hundred meters away) a craft which had the shape of a saucer surmounted by a kind of cube. A bright light and thick yellow smoke issued from this weird machine. Mrs. Bachelier called her father, Mr. Hugue, oiler at the Cotonnière of Fives, and her neighbor, Miss Georgette Walyn, 19, shorthand typist, who also saw the phenomenon.
After a few minutes, the saucer reportedly rose almost vertically to disappear into the clouds.
