The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Croix, France, page 6, on September 15, 1954.
See the case file.
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It was through public rumor that the gendarmes of the Bugeat (Corrèze) brigade learned the news: Mr. Antoine Mazaud, from the hamlet of Mourieras, gave a Martian a hug!...
Subsequently, our police officers questioned the farmer suspected of interplanetary sympathies in order to get to the bottom of it.
Mazaud confirmed to them that on September 10 at 8:30 p.m., while returning from his fields, he encountered a stranger of average height on a path, about 1,500 meters from his farm, wearing a helmet without earpieces, who shook his hand and kissed him while speaking unintelligible words.
The man then boarded a cigar-shaped craft, unlit, about three to four meters long, which took off vertically and headed west, making no more noise than a bee.
Mr. Mazaud stated that he had not wanted to talk about the story because he feared being ridiculed. However, he confided in his wife who in turn told her neighbors who in turn...
Let us add this version to the great files on flying saucers which, believe me, are far from being closed.