Case description
The October 12, 1954 Flize gendarmerie report is the strongest recovered version of the Villers-le-Tilleul story. It describes a girl cycling home after closing cattle into a field on October 4, between 6:40 and 7 p.m. Her name is redacted in the police version; later publications identify ten-year-old Eliane, with several surname spellings.
She reported a stationary object about twenty metres to her left, initially mistaken for a tent. It was an upright oval body with a rounded conical top, about 2.5–3 metres high and two metres wide, on a rectangular base. A hatch opened upward roughly 60–80 centimetres above the ground. A normal-height man jumped out and closed it. She described a square head outline, sharp eyes, mitten-like hands and long-haired red-brown clothing. When he approached, she fled on her bicycle.
Police recorded another woman hearing a machine-like noise, and relatives mentioning disturbed grass; officers found nothing on October 6. The later Barrois light observation does not independently confirm the figure. The plate follows the police version, showing the child, human-sized figure and complete craft; it avoids the smaller humanoid and tight suit of some retellings. Likenesses and exact mechanics remain illustrative.
