The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Est Républicain, France, page 6, on October 21, 1954.
Charleville (from our correspondent). -- A curious luminous form, which many people saw moving, Saturday, around 10 p.m. in the sky of Sedan was photographed. An amateur photographer, who took the fresh air at his window in the company of two comrades, suddenly saw in the sky a luminous disc which moved at a high speed.
Grabbing his camera, he managed to take two impressive shots with exposure times Of one or two seconds.
This lighting phenomenon has been seen by some fifty people, including police officers and several Sedanese personalities.
Meteor or flying saucer, ppinions are divided.
On the other hand, it is pointed out that in Thin-le-Moutier, a village in the district of Mezière, a Woman would have seen a flying saucer land less than thirty meters away from her and frightened, she Would have immediately lost consciousness. Since then that person, who enjoys general esteem in the country, suffers from a strange skin disease and is obliged to stay in her bedroom.
