The article below was published in the daily newspaper Nord Littoral, Calais, France, page 8, on August 25, 1954.
See the case file.
|
Evreux, August 25. -- Mysterious craft were been seen by several people in the sky of Vernon (Eure) during the night from Sunday to Monday.
The son of a city merchant says he saw distinctly, around one o'clock in the morning, above the Seine, an elongated object, red in color, resembling a large cigar. According to him, this object stood motionless at a fairly low height. There was total silence.
From this curious machine, a flying saucer detaches that the witness describes with precision:
"It was shaped like a dark oval disc, surmounted by a red dome with a very bright halo surrounded by flames."
The flying saucer detached itself from the cigar, fell vertically, then seemed to want to follow an horizontal flight, above the bridge it turned, went up and suddenly disappeared. It was immediately replaced by another.
This curious carousel reportedly lasted three quarters of an hour.
These observations were confirmed by several people and in particular by a chemical engineer of the laboratory of ballistic and atomic researches for the army, who followed at the same hour the RN 182. The engineer observed the mysterious brilliant craft and judged, with the person accompanying him, that it could only be flying saucers.
