The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Union, Reims, France, page 1, on November 5, 1954.
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TAIN-L'HERMITAGE. -- The flying saucers claimed a victim last night: Mr. Neyret, a farmer in Tain-l'Hermitage, whom one of his neighbors mistook for a Martian.
In the darkness, his neighbor, a winegrower, had seen a silhouette that seemed extraordinary to him. "It's a Martian," he thought. He armed himself with a stick and struck poor Mr. Neyret repeatedly, who ended up with an injured ear and was forced to consult a doctor.