The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Courrier Picard, France, page 1, on November 5, 1954.
See the case file.
TAIN-L'HERMITAGE, November 4. - The flying saucers made a victim last night, Mr. Neyret, farmer in Tain-L'Hermitage, whom one of his neighbors had mistaken for a Martian. A winegrower had seen a silhouette which seemed "extraordinary" to him. He armed himself with a stick and struck twice. The "Martian" has a damaged ear.