The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Courrier de Valenciennes, Valenciennes, Nord, France, page 3, September 18, 1954.
See the case file.
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Mr. Marius Dewilde, 34, living at Level Crossing 79 in Quarouble, in the middle of the night discovers a flying saucer and its passengers who were resting on the railroad tracks. The "saucerians" were two beings "small and stocky, with large heads...". Mr. Dewilde closed his eyes in surprise and when he opened them the machine had left without more politeness. For more information one could perhaps refer to "The War of the Worlds", a movie about these famous machines, and which has just passed last week on the screens of the region. Of course, this is just a coincidence.
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