The article below was published in the daily newspaper Libre Artois, Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France, page 3, on October 19, 1954.
See the case file.
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It was around 9:30 p.m., Saturday evening, the marshal of logis-chief Decréquy accompanied by the gendarme Candelle were making a night tour in the commune of Pommier.
On the square of this locality they noticed a trailer of fairground merchants. While they were busy checking the identity of the fairground merchant household, the woman drew the attention of the gendarmes to a luminous object passing in the sky.
Indeed, chief Decréquy, gendarme Candelle, as well as Mr. Louis Dumetz, city councilman in Pommier and the fairground couple saw a luminous craft of orange color moving very fast from East to West (direction Monchy-au-Bois-Saint-Amand) at a height of about 400 to 500 meters.
Only three to four seconds passed before the "saucer" (?) disappeared from view.
