The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Voix du Nord, issue for the Aisne department, France, page 4, on October 20, 1954.
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The phenomenon sighted in the sky of Tergnier, last Saturday, and to which witnesses attribute a form of funnel, was also observed in Chauny.
Indeed, that same day, at exactly 9:25 p.m., several reliable witnesses saw, moving at an impressive speed, a very luminous object, of which they could not clearly determine the shape, traveling without noise, on a horizontal and perfectly rectilinear line at approximately 300 m. altitude, and which crossed the Chauny sky, above the canal, east-west direction.