The article below was published in the daily newspaper Nord Littoral, Calais, France, page 5, on october 24, 1954.
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Thursday evening, around 8 p.m.., Mrs. Decobert-Delhaye living at Vieille Rue, in Audruicq, was in her kitchen when she heard an unusual noise, resembling a pendulum ticking. Immediately she went out into the courtyard and was amazed to see in the sky, in the direction of Nordkerque, at a very low height, a ball of fire of multiple colors.
Frightened, she returned inside and through the window noticed that the ball remained motionless; a few moments later, she clearly saw the ball heading towards Calais.
Other people also noticed the passage of this phenomenon at the same hour.