The 1954 French flap:

A Mysterious
FLYING SAUCER
in the sky of Camon

A series of testimonys worthy of faith currently upset all the small city of Camon.

Wednesday evening, in the Town hall of the Commune, there was a meeting of the town council. These Messrs were to examine the ritual multiplicity of the complaints of taxpayers. It is at about 09:30 p.m. that the meeting ended.

When the advisers found themselves on the doorstep of the town hall, they all saw, without exception, the following phenomenon: four red balls veined as agates were set in the sky at some hundred meters height.

They seemed to draw the four corners of a suspended rectangle, the small sides in the top and the bottom.

First of all motionless, the balls started to go down slowly above the presbytery garden. At this time, some of the witnesses saw a pale dome which covered the red lights thanks to the reflection of the moon.

Then the two interior fires at equal distance one of the other, seemed to detach and drop more towards the ground of which they appeared to test the relief.

The operation had lasted for five minutes when one of the witnesses invited the others "to rush" towards the location of the red lights.

Climbing on the surrounding walls, he also saw in its turn the red lights, which, on his arrival, went up a few meters and fled at the horizon.

The saucers were only jokes

The mysterious machines seen in the sky of Camon on November 3, by various people, machines which were the subject of an article in our previous editions, were only the work of pranksters.

Their trickery was revealed thanks to the tenacity of the gendarmes of BOVES.

It was quite simply a prank whose authors are young inhabitants of Camon.

The machine in question was composed of an iron brace, provided at each end with red bulbs powered with a flashlight battery, the whole maintained in the air by small baloons.

Some of its authors recognized the facts at the time of the investigation by the gendarmerie.