The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Liberté, issue of Valenciennes, Nord, France, page 4, on October 19, 1954.
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Last week the Club of Dowsers went to Quarouble, under the leadership of its president, to investigate this famous flying saucer that landed on the railway track. The eminent president and his collaborators wanted to be able to detect the nationality of the two two-legged monsters, which the Quarouble resident, baptized in the city under the nickname of "Cacoule and Parisian", had seen with his own eyes, seen.
As soon as these gentlemen arrived on the scene, the news spread like wildfire, and a few hundred curious people surrounded the Valencian scholars.
"Come quickly, shouted a brave farmer, to one of his comrades, to check the delegation from the French Academy, you've seen at the movies 'bout that thing?"
The guard of Quarouble pushed aside the increasingly dense crowd and the president of the club, who had "fetched" the "seer", kindly begged him to tell, in front of his colleagues, what he had seen in the night!
The seer. - Well, here's that's what I saw. First I slept. All of a sudden there was a noise like a hit of tha thunder. I put on slacks and there's me gonna outsude. What do I see? An big round deal of six meters long by 4 wide. Two little men like 2 infants, I showed at the cinema how they were.
The President. - You were wide awake my friend?
The seer. - Ya listen... Na if you thing i'm a crackpot, you have to say it, or else...
The President. - do not be angry, my friend. We are here to shed light on our fellow citizens, let's continue.
The seer. - The 2 dwarfs light a big chigar "Gimme one of those!" it cried. No answer. "What's that country of ya?" Nope answer. "Ah well ...!" what I told them...
"Eat there" which answers one of the two.
"I was paralyzed. All of a sudden, they jump in the the flying plate and woof! they're gone.
The President. - Did they go East or West?
The seer. - That way (he points east).
The President. - Gentlemen, armed with this valuable information, let's get to work.
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All dowsers swing their pendulums. A quarter of an hour passes.
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The President. - Gentlemen, my conclusions are as follows: it is a machine which comes from the East and which left again in the East.
Other dowsers. - Our conclusions are identical to yours.
The president at the "seer". - Could you tell us the approximate height of the two airmen?
The seer. - I showed it at the movies. You see, it couldn't be that big. One meter to one and a half meters.
The President. - Gentlemen! Let's get our pendulums to know the nationality.
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A quarter of an hour passes.
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The President. - For me it was two Mongols or two Tartars.
The others. - For us too, no doubt.
An assistant. - lsiten, Gentlemen, I'n not fooling! I alway said althat the [?] have nothing to say. But do you think that two Mongols or two Tartars would get in Quarouble to do what?
The President. - We don't care, they're Russians!
Another assistant. - Listen ya... Cacoule and Parisien said there that he said "ra" and that the 2 airmen answered: "Eat there". You'd think that Mongols or Tartars do not know any French!
A third assistant. - As for me, Mr. Bauduin, I didn't get anything. Cacoule, and Parisien, he saw nothin' and he dremead all this at the movies. And stupid in everything, and all those chaps that came from Paris and elsewhere to do an investigation! Get back to your homes and let us laugh full our caps...
A. L.
