Case description
Roadmender André Narcy, forty-eight, claimed an encounter near Laneuville-à-Rémy while travelling to work in October 1954. The ledger assigns October 6 at 7:20 a.m.; reports also use October 5 and approximately 7:15. He said an orange-coloured form in a pasture first resembled a tent. After leaving his motorcycle and approaching a former clay-extraction hollow, he allegedly saw a small hairy figure beside a strange object.
Narcy described the figure as about 1.2 metres tall, apparently covered in hair or a close fur-like garment, with an orange waist covering and indistinct face. He called out; it entered a round opening in the object. Descriptions of the machine vary between a large spherical upper section with a spindle underneath and much smaller dimensions. It reportedly rose vertically amid vapour. Narcy later returned with workmates, who described flattened grass, missing dew and small marks.
Contemporary newspapers subsequently published Narcy's admission that he had invented the story, variously to explain lateness or amuse colleagues. Later ufologists disputed the confession, citing a much later claim that he recanted to be left alone. The published admission is substantial evidence of a hoax and must remain visible; the later counterclaim does not erase it. The illustration is therefore prominently labelled as a story with a published hoax admission, later disputed.
