The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Oise-Matin, Beauvais, France, page 10, on September 15, 1954.
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SEA SERPENT", new genre, the problem of flying saucers returns to the foreground of the news. A strange information teaches us that an inhabitant of the department of the Nord, Mr. Marius Dewilde reportedly saw in Quarouble, near the level crossing 79 of the railway line Saint-Amand - Blanc-Misseron two strange individuals. According to this information, these two people, dressed, declares Mr. Dewilde of sorts of diving suits, would have, when he walked on them, sent a light beam with green reflections which paralyzed the witness for a time.
The two individuals would then have climbed into an elongated craft three meters high, six meters long, which rising vertically would have disappeared into the sky. Following this statement, three air police inspectors went to the scene to carry out an investigation. The ground on which this landing would have taken place was thoroughly searched. No footprints were found. On the other hand, one of the railway ties show strange traces. In five places, the timber of the crosspiece is threaded over an area of five square meters. Its markings all look the same and are arranged symmetrically.
The story told by Mr. Dewilde is also confirmed by the testimonies of several inhabitants of the region.
All these testimonies, these facts, give Mr. Dewilde's story a touch of authenticity. Yet many people remain skeptical. Mr. Dewilde is doubtless in good faith; but a year ago he suffered a serious accident at work (head trauma), as a result of which he developed some nervous disorders.
Information indicates that the gendarmes of the Bugeat brigade, informed by public rumor, that a farmer from the hamlet of Mouriéras, commune of Bugeat (Corrèze), Mr. Antoine Mazaud, had conversed with the passenger of a "flying saucer", went to the farmer's to confirm these rumors.
Mazaud tells them that on September 10, at 8:30 p.m., returning from these fields, he had met on a path, 1,500 meters from his house, an unknown individual of normal size, wearing a helmet without ear muffs, who squeezed his hand and kissed him, uttering intelligible words.
The man then climbed into a cigar-shaped, unlit machine, three to four meters long, which, taking off vertically, left in a westerly direction, making no more noise than a bee.
