The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Est Républicain, France, page 1, on August 12, 1954.
Docelles. -- A meteor elongated cigar shape, circulating horizontally was observed Saturday around 8 p.m. Chande street by several people of the locality and reliable holidaymakers. Their attention was suddenly drawn to a luminous phenomenon moving north-east and visible throughout twenty seconds.
This "thing", which was neither an airplane nor a shooting star, disappeared without detonation. Was it a flying saucer or a meteor like the one observed in the regions of Contrexeville, Vittel and Remiremont?