An account in Pas-de-Calais, France

On October 27, 1954 at around 11:15 PM, a witness walking in the street (R.N. 40) noticed about ten meters ahead of him an opalescent glow. It was a cigar-shaped "craft" whose front seemed wider than the rear, 8 meters long and 0.80–1 meter in diameter, with no portholes or door. It moved silently at about 30 km/h at a height of 20 meters above the road, whose curves it followed. It gave off a yellowish-white light limited to the outline of the device and did not illuminate the roofs of the houses it flew over. It disappeared into a curve in the road, reappeared further on, then abruptly veered to its left (toward the southwest) at the entrance to the town of Marck, 5 km away. It then appeared stationary in the form of a sphere with a more intense and more yellow glow. The witness went home, prepared his meal, and observed the object still in the same place, but after his meal the object had disappeared. Despite the witness's efforts to have another person observe the phenomenon, he was the only one to make this sighting. This observation is of average consistency with a single witness who is presumably in good faith. What he describes is not very strange, since it is only a luminous point observed from fairly far away. The object's movements are only noted when the witness moves: upon arriving at his home, he perceived the object as stationary. Several hypotheses are possible: - a very distant and low light on the horizon, which because of this appears to follow the witness's movements; an astronomical check indicates only the planet Mars in the witness's direction of observation, but it set at 11 PM. A light from the port of Calais can also be considered. - a helicopter searchlight could have produced the same effect. GEIPAN classifies this case as C due to a lack of corroborating data.