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SEPTEMBER 10, 1954, QUAROUBLE, NORD:

Reference number for this case: 10-sep-54-Quarouble. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

REPORTS:

[Ref. 1387:] "L'AURORE" NEWSPAPER:

An inhabitant of the Nord claims to have seen the two passengers of a flying saucer... Recently, in the Somme and the Pyrenees, flying saucers were seen in the sky. Mr. Marius Dewilde, aged 34, workman of the steel-works of Blanc-Misseron, resident of Tuarouge [sic, Quarouble], in the Nord, saw, him, the other night, at about 2:30 a.m.. within [... ] approximately of his garden, a dark, high shape of 3 meters height and a diameter of 5 meters. Then two strange small beings, measuring approximately one meter, came running out a nearby path. Then, the apparatus, whose door had opened and closed again, rose of ten meters, after having wavered one moment. A very sharp light spout out and, similar to a ball of fire, the machine disappeared towards the West.

[Ref. 1612:] "VAR-MATIN REPUBLIQUE" NEWSPAPER:

Near Valenciennes Strange beings and a mysterious machine appeared to a workman... Valenciennes, September 12. -- An inhabitant of Quarouble, close to Valenciennes, Mr. Marius Dewilde, aged 34, workman in a workshop of the north of France in Blanc Misseron, domiciled at the railway crossing #79, stated that Friday evening, around 10 p.m., his attention was drawn by the barkings of his dog. He came out immediately, equipped with a flashlight, and saw on the way skirting his dwelling, in a particularly deserted place, a dark mass, of oval form, which could be six meters in length and three in height. Directing his lamp in another direction, Mr. Dewilde saw two strange and squat men, whose size did not exceed one meter, moving quickly towards the machine. These men had a short head on which the rays of the lamp is said to have been reflected as if they were spheres of glasses. A few moments later, an intense square of light appeared on the sides of the machine. The witness is said to have then closed his eyes. When he reopened them, the light and the strange beings had disappeared. The apparatus, slightly swinging, went up vertically while releasing smoke, arrived at ten meters of the ground, the lower part of the machine reddened and it disappeared quickly. Mr. Dewilde announced this strange appearance to the police force of Onnaing. The Air police force went on the spot but no trace was noted.

[Ref. 1388:] "LIBERATION" NEWSPAPER:

This man claims to have seen Martians A metal-worker of 34 year old, Mr. Marius Dewilde, resident of Quarouble (the Nord), claims to have seen Friday, at about 10:30 p.m., on the railway located at a few meters of his garden, a dark mass which he initially took for a cart. But he heard steps on other side of the balustrade of the garden and directed his flashlight in this direction. He then saw two beings covered of diving-suits. They were of small size, not more than one meter, but very broad of shoulders. They had legs proportioned with their size, but Mr. Dewilde does not know if they had arms. He then wanted to prevent the escape to the two strange characters, but a port-hole of square design opened in the dark mass posed on the way. A green ray spout out and Mr. Dewilde was, it seems, paralysed on the spot. When the projector died out, he finally recovered his freedom of movement, but the two "Martians" had gone up in their apparatus which had risen above the ground vertically. It was a machine having the shape of a cheese cover, 3 meters high, a diameter from 5 to 6 meters, which disappeared quickly towards the west. The Air Police force investigated, but fail to find any trace on the way crossed by the "Martians." We quite expected that.

[Ref. 812:] "PARIS-PRESSE" NEWSPAPER:

This newspaper as some other did, gave the account by the Witness Marius Dewilde:

"My wife and my son just went to bed, and I read by the fireplace the account of the accident of "L'Abeille". The clock hung above the cooker marked 10:30 P.M., when my attention was drawn by the barkings of my dog Kiki. The animal howled madly. Suspecting the presence of some prowler in the yard, I took my flashlight and went outside." "While arriving in the garden, I saw on the railway, within less than six meters of my door, on the left, a sort of dark mass. It must have been a peasant who left his carriage there, I initially thought. I will have to inform the police officers at the police station tomorrow, so that they remove it, or there will be some accident at the first hour." "At this time, my dog came towards me, crawling, and suddenly, on my right, I heard a noise of hurried steps. There is a path which one calls "the path of the smugglers" because smugglers use it sometimes, at night. My dog had turned again to this direction and had started again to bark. I lit my flashlight and projected its light towards the path." "What I discovered had nothing in commun with smugglers: two "beings" as I had never seen before, at no more than three or four meters of me, just behind the palisade who only separated me from them, were marching one behind the other in the direction of the dark mass which I had noticed on the railway. One of them, the one that went in front, turned to me. The beam of my lamp came right at the place of its face, a reflection of glass or metal. I had the clear impression that its head was enclosed in some diving-suit helmet. The two beings were besides clothed in one piece suits, similar to those of the divers. They had a very small size, probably less than one meter, but extremely broad of shoulders, and the helmet protecting the "head" appeared enormous to me. I saw their legs, small, proportioned with their size, it seemed to me, but on the other hand I did not see an arm. I am unaware of wether they had arms. The first second of stupor went by, I rushed towards the door of the garden with the intention to circumvent the palisade and to cut their path to capture at least one of them." "I was at no more than two meters of the two silhouettes when, spouting out suddenly through a sort of square of the dark mass that I had initially seen on the rails, an extremely powerful illumination, like a magnesium flash, plugged me. I closed my eyes and wanted to shout, but I could not. I was like paralysed. I tried to move, but my legs did not obey me any more. Thrown into a panic, I heard as in a dream, within one meter of me, a noise of stepping on the cement flagstone which is posed in front of the door of my garden. In fact the two beings moved towards the railway." "Finally, the projector died out. I regained the control of my muscles and run towards the railway. But already, the dark mass which was landed there rose off the ground while slightly balancing as would an helicopter." "However I had been able to see a kind of door closing itself. A thick dark vapor spouted out underneath it with a light whistle. The machine went up to the vertical to about thirty meters, then, without ceasing taking altitude, fled towards the west in direction of Anzin. From a certain distance, it took a reddish luminosity. One minute later, all had disappeared."

[Ref. 1523:] "LE QUOTIDIEN DE LA HAUTE-LOIRE" NEWSPAPER:

AGAIN A SAUCER NEAR VALENCIENNES An inhabitant of Quarouble sees two small helmeted beings get in it A new flying saucer is said to have come down from the sky and to have landed in the night from Friday to Saturday at 10:30 p.m. on the territory of Quarouble, close to Valenciennes, near the railway crossing 79, on the railway used by the national collieries. "It was 10:30 p.m.," Mr. Marius Dewilde, aged 34, noted, "when my attention was drawn by the barkings of my dog. Believing in the presence of prowlers in my farmyard, I went outside equipped with a flashlight. At less than six meters of the door of my dwelling, I saw a dark mass. In a small path, emerging in my grazing ground, I saw two small men who ran towards the railway crossing. I directed the ray of the lamp. The ray was reflected on the head of the one of them as on glass. Besides, this head appeared rather large to me, but I did not have time to detail it, at the same time the door of the machine opened. A sharp light dazzled me as it would have happened with a magnesium flash. Dazzled, paralysed by the fear, I saw the door being closed again, the apparatus oscillate slightly, rise at some tens of meters, then to slip by like a flash in the direction of Anzin, i.e. towards the west." Mr. Dewilde, invited to describe the saucer, further indicated that it was of round form, maybe conical. According to his indications it was estimated that it could be approximately three meters high and six meters in diameter. At the time of its rise, it let escape a little smoke and reddened until resembling a ball of fire. When he had recovered his spirit, Mr. Dewilde went to awake his wife, a neighbor, and ran to the gendarmerie, then to the police station of Onnaing. Police chief Gouchet found in front of him a man shalking of all his members, suffering of intestinal contractions which obviously excluded the assumption of an act. In his district, Mr. Dewilde has the reputation of being a balanced and intelligent man. Yesterday, the Air Police force came to inspect the location, but no trace were found. It was only observed that a piece of the ballast had been recently exposed.

[Ref. 1491:] "NORD-ECLAIR" NEWSPAPER:

FLYING SAUCER? Nothing is incredible in the statement of the gate-keeper of Quarouble AND THE AIR POLICE TOOK ALL THIS CASE SERIOUSLY From our special envoy MICHEL DUFOREST For the first time since the appearance of mysterious machines called "flying saucers", in Quarouble, close to Valenciennes, the traces left by one of these apparatuses were assessed. Six claws, laid out in half-circle on cross-pieces of a little used railway line, seem to prove that in this place a contact or a friction occurred between wood and a harder material. That is all that can be stated for the time being. But the services of the police force of the Air Force which photographed each print and took some of the scattered stones on the ballast perhaps already drew some other conclusions which they will jealously keep under the cover of military secrecy. For if the public remains skeptic with respect to all that refers to the "Flying saucers", it is not the same with the police force of the Air with which has a one section especially in charge of investigations in that matter. Hitherto, no material fact had come to corroborate the statements of the witnesses and perhaps this is why the traces in Quarouble will make it possible to see a part of the truth. MARIUS IS NOT ALWAYS KIDDING Undoubtedly, the story starts well for the disbelievers since it is told by... Marius Dewilde. But the burst of laughter which accommodates this firstname [*] ceases when the story is told. To obtain more guarantees, it is not to Mr. Dewilde that I asked to tell the facts he witnessed on Friday September 10. Because at this day, he could have been influenced by the questions of the investigators and tens of journalists who raveled at his place. The interrogations which he underwent to check if it did not lie or if he was not the victim of hallucination, could work his imagination, and, involuntarily, he would be likely today, to add details to the primitive account. This normal phenomenon happening to the most balanced men would be all too explainable since for almost a week now, Mr. Dewilde has read in the "trash press" about stories which do not have anything anymore resembling his statements. Continued in the last page

[*] The first name Marius is supposed to make everyone laugh because it is the generic firstname used in any invented exaggerated stories. "Marius" is the archetype of the simple guy from Marseille who would made any wild claims. Of course Mr. Dewilde's credibility has nothing to do with the archetypes attached to his firstname.

THE DOG BARKS IN THE NIGHT Mr. Dewilde's home - a railway crossing guard house - is isolated at the edge of a small wood, at approximately a kilometer and half from the national road of Valenciennes to the Belgian customs of Quiévrain. A dirt track, hardly suitable for motor vehicles, leads from the road to the house: it is actually used only by farmers who go to their fields. The house is located in a triangular space separating two railways. One, employed only by the mines, leads to the mine of Quiévrechain; a train a day passes by there. The other goes from Blanc-Misseron to Odomez; a merchandise train descends in the morning in the direction of the border and goes up the evening in opposite direction; it is on this railway that the traces are. Let us imagine that we are last Friday, Mr. Dewilde reads, in his kitchen, his illustrated weekly magazine. It is approximately 10:30 p.m. His wife and two sons aged 14 and 2 years 1/2 slept on the first floor - in the mansard-roofed room. For a few minutes already, Mr. Dewilde has heard the dog barking outside, but he does not pay attention to it. However, irritated by these barkings, he finally stands up, takes his flashlight and opens the door of the kitchen that gives on a small enclosure contiguous to the railway line, he shouts "Kiki, will you stop it already?" SMALL HELMETED MEN When he said these words, he saw a dark mass posed through the railway, which he mistakes for a carriage loaded with hay. A farmer - knowing that no train goes by at night - can, indeed, have abandoned its loading until the next day morning. At this point in time Mr. Dewilde hears noise in the small way connecting the two railways. Instinctively, he directs the flashlight in the direction of the place from which the noise comes. And in the ray of light a man appears - a small man who runs while moving towards the "dark mass." It is a child, he thinks, but while looking better, he sees a second man, behind the other, and so he supposes they are defrauders, for he thinks he makes out a heavy pack on their back. At this point in time light of the lamp has lights the head of one of the individuals and Mr. Dewilde realizes that it is covered with a kind of diving-suit or helmet out of glass. He also sees that the man carries a very full combination... And then brutally he is blinded by a light; which surprises him. When his eyes can see through the darkness again, the machine - which he mistook for a carriage loaded with hay - rises vertically while rocking, and moves away quickly above the railway releasing a small flame at the back, without making more noise than a gentle humming. Only then did Mr. Dewilde realize that he has just been the witness of an extraordinary event. He rushes into his home and shouts to his wife: "Come quickly, there is a "thing" which flies away on the railway. It is a weird machine, and there are men!" Awaken up too fast, Mrs. Dewilde does not react immediately, and when her husband returns outside, the mysterious apparatus had disappeared. Mr. Dewilde decides, at once, to go to warn the gendarmerie of Quiévrechain, in spite of the his wife who asked him to wait until the next day morning. "It is my duty to go there, he answered, according to Mrs. Dewilde. That will perhaps be useful to them." And, jumping on his motorcycle, he leaves for Quiévrechain - distant of more than 3 kilometers - skirting the railway which leads to Blanc-Misseron. AT THE POLICE PRECINT OF ONNAIN But there is no permanence at the office of the gendarmerie, and the door remains hopelessly closed, in spite of the insistence of Mr. Dewilde, to ring the bell and hit the door. He then goes into a nearby coffee shop, where he explains what he has just seen. The skepticism of the customers is shaken all the same by his account and his state of excitement. Somebody then suggests to him going to the police station of Onnaing. Mr. Dewilde thus resumes his road travel and crosses the six kilometers which separate Quiévrechain from Onnaing, where he arrives shortly before midnight. The officers in duty are also struck at his attitude: "he was pale, they told me, and was shaking like a man who had just had a great fright." However, the police officers refuse to wake up the chief detective, but they promise that he will visit Mr. Dewilde early in the morning. The latter thus regains his residence, at approximately four kilometers, and he buckles his night excursion. After his departure, the officers change their minds and alert the chief detective all the same, Mr. Gouchet, who will collect in the morning of the next day, the statement of Mr. Dewilde on premises of the adventure. In front of the sincerity of the witness, he will alert the Air Police force, and they will record the traces that we mentioned. THIS IS NOT A HOAX ... Such is the veracious story of the "flying saucer" of Quarouble. The police chief of Onnaing, like the investigators of the services of the Air Security, refuse to say anything more for the excellent reason that they know nothing more. All that they would add would distract away from the truth and would lead in the field of deductions and assumptions. One can admit initially that Mr. Dewilde, wanting to have people talk about him, invented this uncanny history completely. "If this were the case, answered Mr. Gouchet to me, Mr. Dewilde would be, at the present time, in jail for insult to the authorities. I have experience of interrogations, and I can vouch that Mr. Dewilde does not invent anything. This is also the opinion gathered by the Air Police force. you can't make up such a story without betraying yourself, at one time or another." There are also elements which prove the good faith of the witness. He crossed, in the middle of the night, some fifteen kilometers to inform the authorities. H showed signs of his fear. ... NOR MASS HALLUCINATION But if Mr. Dewilde did not want to mislead, he could have been mislead. Wasn't he victim of hallucination? Mr. Gouchet answers this question too. "I thought of that, too. Thus, I examined the last readings of Mr. Dewilde. In the evening of the event, he read a weekly magazine in which there was nothing about flying saucers." He is not stuffed with science fiction novels, and reads only few illustrated magazines in addition to his daily newspaper." Moreover, Mr. Dewilde is a balanced and sensible man, and he was n no way predisposed "to see a flying saucer." And furthermore, it is only when the apparatus flew away that he thought of the "saucers." Hitherto, he mistook the dark mass for a carriage loaded with hay, and the two men for defrauders. In addition, more than ten people stated to have seen, that evening, around 08:30 p.m., either a "fireball," or a "disc letting escape a trail of fire" in the sky. All testimonies agree to state that the disc moved towards Anzin. And actually, it is indeed towards this direction that Mr. Dewilde saw this mysterious thing which rested on the railway move away. Do we have then to suppose that there was a collective hallucination of people who did not know each other and were not together at this time? Some chattered on the step of their door, others were closing the window of their bedroom, some, finally, were going home. Last point to be cleared up: who were these "small men". In his statement, Mr. Dewilde says that they were no more than one meter tall. He initially thought that were children, then "defrauders carrying a heavy burden." finally, he saw that a "sort of diving-suit" covered them. Is all that incredible? Before, it is wise to specify that 1°) the scene did not last thirty seconds; 2°) the night of Friday to Saturday was extremely dark; 3°) the wind blew with strength. Mr. Dewilde thus did not have time to "examine" the individuals. He saw shades and his flashlight allowed him to note that they were covered with special clothes. But aren't aviators provided, them also, of a full combination and a special helmet allowing them to confront high altitudes? Can't men, of average size, curved so that they are not seen, appear as "small men" in particular when the width of their combination still makes them appear smaller? These plausible assumptions that the police force emits authorize to believe in the sincerity of the witness. MICHEL DUFOREST

[Ref. 1015] CIA:

INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROACASTS COUNTRY: Non-Orbit   DATE OF INFORMATION: 1954 SUBJET: Military - Unidentified flying objects   HOW PUBLISHED: Dail[y] newspaper   DATE DIST.: 29 oct 1954 WHERE PUBLISHED: As indicated   NO. OF PAGES: 5 DATE PUBLISHED: 31 Jul - 20 Sep 1954   LANGUAGES: Various   SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO.: [Blackened out] [Blackened out]   THIIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION SOURCE: As indicated   SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS, 31 JULY - 20 SEPTEMBER 1954 WESTERN EUROPE [... (Reports from other countries) ...] France [... (Previous reports)] BELIEVE "FLYING SAUCER" PILOTS WERE SMUGGLERS -- Paris, Franc-Tireur, 16 Sep 54 (The following is additional information on reports of two cases cited in the FBIS [CIA reports such as this one] roundup of 14 September 1954) Two of the alleged landings (on 10 September) in France of "fying saucers" are considered by the local air police to have been nothing more than the landing of planes used in smuggling. Furthermore, in one case, the farmer in Correze Department stated that the pilot uttered unintelligible words; but the farmer was certainly no polyglot and could easily have been fooled. In the other case, in Valenciennes Departement, the witness may have been sincere, but it should be noted that he had a cranial traumatism one year ago and several nervous disturbances since. It is true, however, that in the latter case, the air police found four unusual marks on the railroad ties near the spot indicated by the witness, marks that could have been made by the tools of railroad workers. [... (Next reports)]

Note: the first case is the Antoine Mazaud case, refer to the corresponding file for September 10 in Mourieras, Correze.

[Ref. 1385:] "SAMEDI-SOIR" NEWSPAPER:

The great joke of the "Martians" [...] Two divers play train Quarouble (Pas-de-Calais), Friday September 10, 1954, 22 h.15: MARIUS DEWILDE, aged 34, workman with the steelworks Blanc Misseron, reads a magazine in his kitchen (it would be interesting to know what this magazine was about) [the shipwreck of l'Abeille], On the first floor, Mrs. Dewilde and her son have rested already for a moment. All is quiet. Only the tick-tock of the clock and the crumpling of the turned pages break the silence. Suddenly, Marius Dewilde raises the head, attentive. Outside, Kiki, his dog, barks furiously as when a foreigner penetrates in the small garden. Somebody at this hour? Certainly not a visitor. Then? A tramp, perhaps, or a smuggler? Marius Dewilde takes a flashlight and goes outside on his doorstep. The fresh air of the night hits him in the face. During a few seconds, his eyes badly accustomed to the darkness cannot distinguish anything. Then, beyond the barrier which separates the way from the railway, he sees a dark mass, like a cart abandoned on the rails. "Hold on..., thinks Marius, a peasant uncoupled on the railway. I will have to warn the station so that it gets removed, that could cause an accident." Meanwhile Kiki, towards the right, continues to bark furiously. Marius Dewilde presses the button of his flashlight and directs the luminous ray towards the place where Kiki is. And then, he sees... within three or four meters of him, on the way which passes in front of the house, two beings go one behind the other towards the dark mass seen on the railway. They are small (no more than one meter). The one from the pair who walks in front turns the head towards Marius Dewilde who has the impression to find himself in the presence of two extremely broad shouldered divers whose helmets throw metallic reflections. First amazed, Marius runs towards the garden's door, to cut the road to the unknowns. Then, in the dark mass posed on the way, a window of square design opens, from where spouts out a green ray which is directed at Dewilde. At once, the man is paralysed, nailed on the spot. His legs refuse to serve him. During several seconds, he is thus unable to make even one movement, then suddenly, the projector extincts, and Marius finds the use of his muscles. He runs towards the apparatus, but he is too late. With a whistle and a thick black smoke, the dark mass rises in space while slightly rocking. One would say a cheese cover three meters high and from five to six meters in diameter. The thing goes up... goes up... It takes a red-orange color, and disappears towards the west. Marius Dewilde and his Martians enter the legend. As in the Mazaud case, the police forces investigate. This time, it is the Air police forces. Why the Air police force? Well, because this is about a flying apparatus, of course. One "seeks" landing traces on the railway and one of "finds" it. Five scratches on the cross-pieces. One of the inspectors states: - AN APPARATUS WHICH WOULD HAVE LANDED ON QUILTS WOULD NOT LEAVE DIFFERENT TRACES! Marius Dewilde was victim, formerly, of a cranial traumatism in the continuation of which he had, one says, expressed some nervous disorders. Perhaps a psychiatrist would have questions to ask, but this assumption is excluded. Nobody will subject the witness to what Americans calls a "cross-examination", i.e. a true interrogation intended to find contradictions or the improbabilities in his account. In what authority, anyway, would this be done? Marius Dewilde is not a criminal or a madman. He does not threaten the safety of anybody. He did not call the police. He is perfectly free, like any French citizen, to tell what he saw or what he believed to have sees and to give of the events of which he claims to have been the witness any version which suits him or in which he believes. Under these circumstances, however, it is allowed to raise the question: where is the scientific truth? [Photograph with caption:] A few hours after Mazaud, Marius Dewilde, of Quarouble (Pas-de-Calais), saw, too, two "Martians". Moreover, he had the privilege of the diving-suits and the "paralysing ray". He also wanted, afterwards, to get a gendarme as witness.

[Ref. 1386:] "EVENING STAR" NEWSPAPER:

In France, Rumors Are Flying... Or Maybe They Are Saucers PARIS. -- Readers of the classical ad columns of the Brest Telegramme blinked recently at the following notice: REWARD Offer of 10 million francs (1000000) to any one who brings me a live inhabitant of planet Mars. Contact PRE in LOCRONAN (Finistère). It may that that Mr. Pre has his tongue in his cheek and a good more than 10 million francs in his pockets. But considering what is going on in Europe these says you never know... Cedric Allingham, if his interest has been more mercenary than scientific, might have warmed up. Mr Allingham is a [unreadable]. He is also a professional ornithologist and an amateur astronomer. His big chance came last February 18, about 3:30 p.m. on his course of a stroll between [... unreadable] [(Allingham claimed to have met Venusians...] chances of earning Mr. Pre's reward, he has no corner on the Martian market. Within recent weeks, European newspapers have been flooded with scores of hardly less intriguing reports: On the night of September 10, near Quarouble in Northern France, an oblong machine about 10 feet long landed on a railroad track a few yards from the house of farmer Marius Dewilde. Two small man-like creatures emerged, dressed in costumes that looked like divers' suits. As Mr. Dewilde walked towards the machine, he was paralyzed by a green light. By the time he recovered, the machine was high in the sky. Further investigations showed symmetrical scrapes on the wooden railroad ties, suggesting that the object had rested on a tripod undercarriage. The same evening a farmer named Antoine Mazaud of the Plateau of Millevache in Southern France turned in a similar report to the local authorities. Walking home, Mr. Mazaud had found himself suddenly face to face with a small, mysterious stranger, wearing something that looked like a crash helmet. Farmer Mazaud prudently extended his pitchfork. The stranger, on the contrary, held out his hands in a gesture of friendship, walked up, uttered a few sounds, and kissed Mr. Mazaud on the cheek. Before the farmer could recover his poise, the amiable intruder has climbed the roadside hedge and entered a cigar-shaped contraption which took off with a faint buzzing sound. On September 24 at 10 a.m. in the Gardunha Mountains near the Spanish border, three Portuguese peasants were stratled by a fast flying sphere which landed in a field 200 yards from them. This time, two tall creatures emerged in shiny metallic outfits and started collecting grass and stones in a brightly polished box. Spotting the peasants, they strolled over and invited the men by gestures to climb into their machines, where moving shadows could be seen behind the semitransparent center section. when the offer was declined, the strangers disappeared through a hatch. A few seconds later, the sphere took off vertically and rapidly disappeared. [In Portugal, a hoax. Case file here.] "Flying Mushroom" On September 30 at 5:10 p.m. Bernard Goujon and Armand Pichet were working on the road between Maisoncelles and Meaux when a "flying mushroom" eight feet wide settled gracefully nearby. Mr. Pichet, from a vantage point in the roadside ditch, urged Mr. Goujon to "run over and have a look." According to Mr. Goujon's report to the gendarmes, the mushroom seemed to be made out of aluminum and rested on three crutches. It took off as he approached "spiraling like an autumn leaf" and was lost in the clouds. Next morning the

[Ref. 1259:] "TIME" MAGAZINE:

The article underneath has been published in the Time magazine, USA, for October 25, 1954.

SCIENCE Martians over France One morning last October, Jean Narcy, a road mender of Haute-Marne, France, was riding to work on his bicycle. In a wheat field he saw a little whiskered man just under 4 ft tall, who wore a fur coat, an orange corset and a plush cap. "Bonjour, [Hello]" said Mr. Narcy. The little man muttered something like "I'll be seeing you." Then he jumped into a small (10 ft. in diameter) flying saucer, took off with a buzzing sound and disappeared into the clouds. With Narcy's "Hairy Martian" as a starting point, the French press run wild, and a deluge of Martians have been raining down ever since. They have come in flying cigars, crowns, comets, winged mushrooms, even a flying chamber pot. Unlike Americans who have seen flying saucers, the French "sighters" paid little attention to the vehicles. They were interested in the people from space. The Martians were anything but standardized. One who stopped Mr. Roger Barrault near the town of Lavoux had brilliant eyes, an enormous moustache, wore rubbers and spoke Latin. Another asked Mr. Pierre Lucas, a Breton baker, for a light. He was bearded and had a single eye in the middle of the forehead. Mr. Lucas could not remember what language he spoke. Paralysing Pygmies. As the Martian invasion of France proceeded, the invaders became more bizarre. A troup of pygmies in plastic helmet gamboled down a railroad track near Quarouble and transfixed Mr. Dewilde with "a paralyzing beam of light." Some Martians were blue, others were yellow or pink. A traveling salesman of the Côte du Nord saw a wonderful sight: a deep rose flying cigar from which stepped a zebra-stripped Martian. As he alighted, he changed color, chameleon-like, from yellow to green. The Martians marched en masse into French affairs. Cartoonists welcomed them delightedly (see cuts). As they multiplied, they even gained respectability. Le Figaro reported: "Counsellor General of Alpes Maritimes greets flying saucers' first appearance on the Côte d'Azur." France Soir announced that "a daily flying-saucer service seems to have been established between Marais-Poitevin and La Rochelle." A man from space even made the social columns of Paris-France: "Mustached Martian spends weekend at Vienna." Angry deputies asked questions in Parliament. Air Force Authorities (even as in the US) were badgered for explanations. Before the many-colored Martians rained down on France, fames Swiss Psychiatrist C. G. Jung was asked what he thought about the saucer epidemic. "Something is being seen," said Jung. "What is seen may be, in the case of a single observer, a subjective vision (hallucination). In the case of many observers, it may be a collective vision. such a psychic phenomenon... could be a spontaneous reaction of the subconscious to the present conscious situation; the fear of an apparently insoluble political situation in the world... At such times eyes turn heavenwards ... and miraculous forebodings of a threatening or consoling nature appear from on high." No More Dreams. Dr. Jung blames the U.S. air Force for mishandling the saucer epidemic and for permitting irresponsible journalists to pump it for bits of sensational-sounding information. He does not believe that the saucers are space ships. Those that are not hallucinations, he thinks, are probably misinterpretations of physical objects or effects. But he was willing to speculate about the effect on the human race of an invasion by beings from another world. "Should the origin of the phenomenon turn out to be an extraterrestrial one," said Dr. Jung, "it would prove an intelligent interplanetary link. The impact of such a fact on humanity is unforeseable. But, without doubt, we would be placed in the very questionable position of today's primitive societies that clash with the superior culture of the white race. All initiative would be wrested from us. As an old witch doctor once said to me, with tears in his eyes: We would 'have no more dreams.' Our sciences and technology would go to the junk pile. What such a catastrophe would mean morally we can gauge by the pitiful decline of the primitive cultures that takes place before our eyes. The capacity to manufacture (interplanetary space ships) points to a technology towering sky sky high over ours." "Just as the Pax Britannica made an end to the tribal warfare in Africa, so our world could roll up its Iron Curtain and use it for scrap ... This might not be so bad. But we would have been 'discovered' and colonized."

[Ref. 1:] CHARLES GARREAU:

On September 10, 1954, in Quarouble (North), a metal-worker, Marius Dewilde, is in the presence of two small beings "wearing suits similar to those of divers. They were of very small size: not more than one meter... I saw their legs, On the other hand, I dis not see their arms and I am not sure that they had any arms." On the the railway, near Marius Dewilde's house, the investigators found marks which, according to experts, were pressed in by a machine of about thirty tons.

[Ref. 152:] JACQUES VALLEE:

The author indicates that on September 10, 1954 in Quarouble in the Nord, a workman on metal left his house because the dog barked and he saw a dark object on the railway. He thought that it was a car. Then he noticed two small beings advancing towards him, tried to stop them, but was paralysed when a strong light was projected on him. The object flew away.

[Ref. 1487:] OTTO BINDER:

September 10, 1954, Quarouble, France. The witness first came upon a UFO that landed on railroad tracks, then encountered creatures "such as I had never seen before. ... The beam of my (flash) light caught a reflection of glass or metal where his face should have been. I had the distinct impression that his head was enclosed in a diver's helmet ... They were very short, probably less than three and a half feet tall."

And, in the same book:

September 10, 1954, Nord, France. A metalworker came out of his house to see a dark object parked on the railroad tracks, and two little men were running toward it. When the observer tried to chase them, they shot back a beam of light that "paralyzed" him; then their craft shot into the sky.

[Ref. 84:] JACQUES VALLEE:

144 Sep. 10, 1954, 10:30 P.M., Quarouble (France). A metal worker, Marius Dewilde, 34, came out of his house as a dog was barking and saw a dark object on the railroad tracks, then observed two dwarfs walking toward it. When he tried to stop them, he found himself paralyzed as a strong orange light was projected at him.The creatures were under 1 m tall, bulky, and wore dark diving suits. No face or arms were visible. Traces made by an object of estimated weight 30 tons were noted by French Air Force and police on the ballast. (Le Parisien, Combat, Le Figaro, 13 sept. 1954) (8; M 44; Magonia)

[Ref. 557:] PIERRE DELVAL:

In his chapter on the cases of paralysis or drousiness of UFO witnesses during their experience, Pierre Delval indicates 12 cases from the French flap of 1954, among those, that in Quarouble in the department of the Nord on September 10, 1954 at 10:30 p.m.

Marius Dewilde, metal-worker, aged 34, was alerted by the barkings of his dog, and left his house. He noticed but without paying attention to it a dark form which stationed on the railway within a few tens of meters of him.

His attention was then drawn to two being of approximately 1 meter in height, dressed in diving-suits, which walked on the path. Marius Dewilde rushed towards his garden's door to cut the road to the small beings and to capture one of them if possible.

When he was hardly within two meters of them, from a square opening of the black mass that Dewilde had taken for a cart, an illumination with green reflections spouted out, as sharp as magnesium combustion, amd dazzled him.

He instinctively closed his eyes and wanted to shout but could not do this, being like "paralysed."

He tried to move, but his legs refused to obey. He was thrown into a panic, and heard as in a dream, a footsteps noise on the cement flagstone in front of his door. He supposed that both anthropoids moved towards the UFO.

Suddenly, he recovered the use of his members and the control of his muscles, he managed to reopen his eyes and noted that the projector was extinct. He then rushed towards the railway, but the dark mass had already disappeared.

[Ref. 1254:] LEONARD STRINGFIELD:

The American ufologist indicates that on September 10, 1954, in France, in Quarouble, Marius Dewilde, metal-worker, heard a dog bark, left his house, and saw a black object on the railway, and two small beings which moved towards him.

Having tried to stop them, he was paralysed by a ray of an intense orange color.

The creatures were small, less than one meter in height, broad, and wore "diving suits."

He indicates that this example of case of a close encounter of the third kind comes from the catalogue by Jacques Vallée who extracted it from the Aime Michel's book.

[Ref. 766:] GILBERT CORNU AND HENRI CHALOUPEK:

The authors indicate that on September 10, 1954 in Quarouble in the department of North, close to the Belgian border, Mr. Dewilde, guard of a level crossing, heard towards 10:30 p.m. his dog howl madly.

He thought that there were poachers in ramble, took his flashlight and came out to inspect the premises.

He distinguished a "large dark mass posed on the railway, and heard a noise of steps in the path which skirts his garden. He directed his lamp in this direction and saw two beings "like I had never seen" which approached while being within a few meters him, and two others a little farther.

The beings seemed dressed of divers suits and capped with helmets that wrapped all the head.

When he rushed to bar the way to them, a blinding light came out from the machine on the railway and paralysed him.

When this projector died out a few moments later and he reccovered the use of his members, he saw the machine rising while swinging like a helicopter, producing a gentle whistling sound, with a thick vapor spouting out by its lower part. The machine took a reddish colouring and disappeared.

Because of the proximity of the border, there was a series of investigations. The press grabbed the story, which did much fuss at the time. One of the arguments which had then appeared convincing was deep prints in the hard wood of the cross-pieces of the railroad, which made it possible to estimate as about thirty tons the pressure which had been exerted.

The authors indicate as sources an investigation by Marc Thiroin in the Files of the AAMT, Mr. Carrouges in "Les apparitions de Martiens" and J. Guieu in " Black out sur les S.V. ", and among the Press: Le Parisian Libéré for September the 13, and 14, 1954.

[Ref. 212:] GILBERT CORNU:

[...] According to this same mail, the case of Quarouble which has occurred on September 10, 1954 is supposed to be "very doubtful"! Let's point out the facts: that evening Marius Dewilde, former submariner who works as metallurgist and lives along the railway reads his newspaper when the dog starts to bark. He goes out equipped with a flashlight, believing he will ahve to deal with occasional smugglers; he initially sees a dark mass that he mistakes for a cart on the railway, then two beings emerge on his right, equipped like divers; he then feels paralysed while the beings join the dark mass which now is visible as a "craft" and it finally takes off... The investigation was carried out by Marc Thiroin for the ufologic movement, but also, let us not forget it, by the police and railway authorities. The conclusions remained secret; even J.-C. Bourret could not obtain the authorization to read it when he wrote his ufology book. If there were only hot air in this official report, be sure that it would have been given to the medias for a long time! For more certainty, I thus wrote to Mr. Bigorne, who lives in the area, for his qualities of investigator are recognized by all (not only by LDLN, but already by the formerly GEPA); here his answer. "... since 1970, I went several times on location and practically found all the material details cited in the accounts of that time..." "The change of attitude of Dewilde in these last years does not influence the events of 1954." Here is the language of the common sense seems to me. So why it is that today, 20 or 30 years after the events, any individual, acting on a purely personal basis or in the capacity of "president" of some unknown groupuscule grants himslef the right to call anything in question. Living in the other end of France and being unaware of the entire locations, of the people of the time and perhaps of the master pieces of the file, how can anyone allow himself to throw suspicion on any case which is not his competence? In this precise case, it is precisely the current attitude of the witness, Marius Dewilde, who inspires to him these doubts. This is a total lack of understanding of ANYTHING in the psychological aspect of the UFO problem! I repeat the sentence of Mr. Bigorne who seems essential to me: "the change of attitude of Dewilde in these last years does not influence the events of 1954," I add that it is the same for Micheline G. in the previous case! Although I can quote a good ten more cases torn so briskly apart by these young dispensers of justice of a zeal whose the courts of the Holy Enquiry would not have blushed at, I will be satisfied with these two cases [...]

[Ref. 1384:] NEWSPAPER "LA CROIX DE L'AISNE":

The photograph underneath was published in the ragional newspaper "La Croix de l'Aisne", of Saint-Quentin, France, on September 26, 1954:

Photo caption: "Mr Marius Dewilde draws for the investigators the saucer and its occupants as he saw them."

[Ref. -:] MAGAZINE "RADAR":

The first page of one issue of the Radar magazine of September 1954:

[Ref. 1371:] STEVEN DUNN, OCCUPANTS DATABASE:

DATE	DESCRIPTION	MICAP_CLAS	REF
09/10/1954	Valencinnes, FR 10 Sep 54 Walking his dog along railroad tracks at night, Dewilde saw a dark mass. Also two small creatures with wide shoulders and huge helmets. He planned to approach, but a bright light from the craft paralyzed him. Creatures returned to craft, which took off with a loud whistling noise. Exam of rail bed showed depressions in rail ties where craft was reported.	CE-3-113	Randle/Estes FOV pg 265

[Ref. 312:] UFOCAT'S "ON THIS DAY":

On this Day September 10 [...] 1954 - A metal worker, Marius Dewilde, age 34, came out of his house in Quarouble, France when his dog was barking and saw a dark object sitting on the railroad tracks. He then observed two dwarfs walking toward it. When he tried to stop them, he found himself paralyzed as a strong orange beam of light that was projected at him. The beings were under 1 meter (3.3 feet) tall, bulky, and wore dark diving suits. No faces or arms were visible. Imprints were made by an object, that an engineer estimated must have weighed 30 tons. French police and the French Air Force investigated the case. (Sources: Le Parisien, September 13, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 44; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 209).

[Ref. 134:] ALBERT ROSALES, HUMCAT:

79. Location. Quarouble France Date: September 10 1954 Time: 2230 Hearing his dogs barking, Marius Dewilde went out and saw a dark mass on the railroad track, less than 6 yards away. On hearing footsteps, he turned his flashlight on the path, where he saw 2 very short beings (less than 3.5 ft) wearing "diver's suits." No arms could be seen. He approached within 6 ft, when he was blinded and paralyzed by a brilliant light emanating from the mass of the tracks. The two creatures went toward the object. When the beam of paralyzing light went out, he ran towards the track, but the object was now rising, emitting a "thick dark steam" and a low whistling sound. It became red luminous and flew away. On the railroad ties where found 5 imprints; it was calculated that a 30-ton weight would have been necessary to produce them. Recent information uncovered about the case indicates that Dewilde found after the craft took off a mysterious metallic black box. He took the box home and attempted to open it, without telling local police about it. After several failed attempts he finally gave up and hid the black box inside a carton. According to Dewilde shortly after this several French Air Force officers who somehow knew about the existence of the black box and took possession of it visited him. Humcat 1954-48 Source: Aime Michel Type: C

[Ref. 1601] RICHARD HALL:

TABLE 1. UFO OCCUPANT SIGHTINGS, 1954-1963 [...] September 10, 1954 Marius Dewilde, Quarouble, France 10:30 P.M. Two beings 3-1/2 ft. tall, coveralls, diver's helmet; dark mass on ground; dog howled, witness blinded by light from craft, paralyzed. [...]

[Ref. 1037] TED PHILIPPS:

September 10, 1954, Quarouble, France, 10:30 p.m.: multiple witnesses, animal reaction, highly heated area, inprints.

[Ref. 1034:] LUIS GONZALES, FIRSTHUMCAT:

September 10, 1954 – Quarouble CONFUSION / HOAX? 10:30 p.m.. Marius Dewilde (aged 34), metalurgy workman, leaves his house when hearing his dog bark and sees a dark object on the railway; he then observed two dwarves who walked towards him. When he tried to stop them, an intense orange light was projected on him, and at this time, he felt paralysed. The beings measured less than 1 m, were squat and carried dark diving-suits. Neither the faces nor the arms were visible. Technicians of the French Aviation and gendarmerie observed traces in the railway, which were calculated to have been caused by an object which weighed some 30 tons. The witness had a second encounter one month later. Sources: MAGONIA catalogue nº143 and 226 ? Nord-Eclair (Lille), September 16, 1954. Jacques Bonabot "Dossier Quarouble 1954" Bulletin Du GESAG, nº72 (June 1983) continued nº86 (December 1986) - 14 pages.

PHOTOGRAPHS:

• [1387] Article in the national newspaper "L'Aurore", September 13, 1954.
• [1612] Article in the regional newspaper "Var-Matin République", September 13, 1954.
• [-] Article in the national newspaper "Le Parisien", September 13, 1954.
• [-] Article in the national newspaper "Combat", September 13, 1954.
• [-] Article in the national newspaper "Le Figaro", September 13, 1954.
• [1388] Article in the national newspaper "Libération", September 14, 1954.
• [812] Article in the national newspaper "Paris-Presse", September 14, 1954.
• [1523] Article in the regional newspaper "Le Quotidien de la Haute-Loire", September 14, 1954.
• [1491] Article in the regional newspaper "Nord-Eclair", Lille, page 1 and last, September 16, 1954.
• [-] Article in the national newspaper "Le Franc-Tireur", September 16, 1954.
• [1384] Photograph in an article in the regional newspaper "La Croix de l'Aisne", September 26, 1954.
• [-] Article in the magazine "Radar", September 1954.
• [1385] Article in the national newspaper "Samedi-Soir", October 14, 1954.
• [1386] Article in the national newspaper "Evening Star", Washington D.C., USA, October 19, 1954.
• [1259] Article in "Time" magazine, USA, October 25, 1954.
• [1015] "Information from foreign documents or radio broadcast - Sightings of unidentified flying objects, 31 July - 20 September 1954", report by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency, USA), pp 1,3, October 29, 1954.
• [-] "Black-out sur les soucoupes volantes", book by Jimmy Guieu, Fleuve Noir publisher, pp 130-133, 1956.
• [-] Ufology magazine "Ouranos", Vol.IX, #24, pp 11-12 and 20-21.
• [152] Summary by Jacques Vallée in "The Humanoids: a survey of world-wide reports of landings of unconventional aerial objects and their alleged occupants", book by Charles Bowen, Neville Spearman publisher, 1969.
• [152] Summary by Jacques Vallée in "En quête des humanoïdes", book by Charles Bowen, French translation of "The Humanoids", J'ai Lu publisher, page 36, 1974.
• [1487] "Flying saucers are watching us", book by Otto Binder, Belmont publisher, 1968.
• [-] Interview of Marius Dewilde by Jacques Lob, in "Imagine", #2, pp 5-8, 1975.
• [1] "Parapsychologie ou escamotage?," article by Charles Garreau, ufology magazine "Lumières dans la Nuit," #179, page 3, November 1978.
• [-] "Les apparitions de Martiens", book by Michel Carrouges (aka Louis Couturier), pp 109-115, 1963.
• [84] "Un siècle d'atterrissages", article by Jacques Vallée, Lumière Dans la Nuit, magazine, numéro 43.
• [84] "Passport to Magonia - On Ufos, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds ", book by Jacques Vallée, Contemporary Books publisher, ISBN 0-8092-3796-2, 1969.
• [84] "Chronique des apparitions extra-terrestres", French translation of "Passport to Magonia", book by Jacques Vallée, Denoel publisher, page 258, 1972.
• [557] "Le grand livre des objets volants non-identifiés", book by Pierre Delval with the Oranos Committee, De Vecchi publisher, pp 247-248, 1976.
• [-] "La nouvelle vague des soucoupes volantes", book by Jean-Claude Bourret, France Empire éditeur, p.113-123, 1975.
• [1254] "Situation red: The UFO siege!", book by Leonard Stringfield, Doubleday and Co publisher, 1977.
• [1254] "Alerte générale OVNI", book by Leonard Stringfield, French translation of "Situation red: The UFO siege!", France Empire publisher, page 112, 1978.
• [-] "Contacts du 4ème type", book by Pierre Delval, De Vecchi éditeur, p.190-191, 1979.
• [-] "OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochées", book by Michel Figuet et Jean-Louis Ruchon, Alain Lefeuvre éditeur, 1979.
• [-] "Les soucoupes volantes: Le grand Refus?" book by the G.A.B.R.I.E.L. team, Michel Moutet éditeur, 1979.
• [-] "Ne résistez pas aux extraterrestres", book by Marius Dewilde et Roger-Luc Mary, Du Rocher éditeur, 1980.
• [766] "Ephémérides des Années d'Espoir de l'Ufologie", article by Gilbert Cornu and Henri Chaloupek, in the ufology magazine Lumières Dans la Nuit (LDLN), #255-256, page 20, September/October 1985.
• [-] "Le diabolique secret des O.V.N.I", article by J. M. Lesage, comité d'enquête Ouranos, 1995.
• [212] "Jusqu'où ne pas aller trop loin!", article by Gilbert Cornu, May 1986.
• [-] "Faces of the Visitors", book by Kevin D. Randle and Russ Estes, Fireside - Simon and Schuster publisher, page 265, 1997.
• [1371] "Occupants Database", listing by Steven Dunn.
• [312] "On this day", written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D., compiled from the UFOCAT 2003 computer database, www.ufocat.com.
• [134] HUMCAT (Humanoids Reports Catalog), Albert Rosales.
• [1601] UFO Occupant Sightings listing, by Richard H. Hall, NICAP website, www.nicap.org.
• [1037]
• "Top Physical Trace Cases - Cases of High Strangeness - A Preliminary List", by Ted R. Phillips, Center for Physical Traces Research (CPTR).
• [1034] "Catalogo de los primeros casos de humanoides clasificado por paises" (Firsthumcat), listing par Luis R. Gonzales Mansi, Funcacion Anomalia, Espagne, page 11, 2002.

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