The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Nouveau Nord Maritime, France, pages 1 et 8, on October 24, 1954.
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Epinal, 23. - A worker from Saint-Remy (Vosges), Mr. Louis Ujvari, 40, told the gendarmes of Raon-l'Etape on Friday that last Wednesday around 2 a.m., while he was on his way to work, he had been stopped on the road by a large, medium-sized stranger dressed in a gray jacket with shiny badges on his shoulders.
The man spoke an unknown language. Mr. Ujvari, of Czech birth, tried to speak Russian at chance. His interlocutor understood this perfectly. "Where am I," he asked him, "in Italy or Spain?" He then inquired about the distance from the German border, then asked for the time. The workman having indicated to him that it was about 2:30 a.m., the man took out of his jacket a watch which showed 4 o'clock in the morning.
He gave the worker the order to move forward, soon Ujvari saw a machine in the middle of the road in the shape of two plates overturned one against
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the other, from which a sort of periscope emerged.
Arrived about thirty meters from the craft which was about 1 m. 60 high and 2 m. 30 wide, the stranger told him to move away. But, looking back from time to time, Mr. Ujvari was able to see the craft slowly rise vertically with the sound of a sewing machine. Reaching an altitude of 500 meters it took the horizontal and disappeared in the direction of the south.
