The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Union, Reims, France, page 6, on September 15, 1954.
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USSEL. -- The gendarmes of the Bugeat brigade, having learned yesterday morning through public rumor that a farmer from the hamlet of Mourieras, in the commune of Bugeat (Corrèze), Mr. Antoine Mazaud, had conversed with the passenger of a "flying saucer," went to see the farmer in order to confirm these reports.
Mazaud told them that on September 10, at 8:30 p.m., while returning from his fields, he had encountered on a path, 1,500 meters from his home, an unknown individual of normal height, wearing a helmet without ear flaps, who shook his hand and embraced him while speaking intelligible words.
The man then climbed into a cigar-shaped craft, unlit, three to four meters long, which took off vertically and departed in the direction of the west, making no more noise than a bee.
Mr. Mazaud then stated that he had not wanted to speak about this story because he feared that people would make fun of him. He nevertheless confided it to his wife who, in turn, mentioned it to the neighbors, and that is how the gendarmerie learned of it.
