The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Berry Républicain, Bourges, France, page 2, on October 15, 1954.
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At last, Bourges has its own flying saucer - though, in an originality that does us honor - it is... a billiard ball.
On Wednesday night, around 11:30 p.m., eight people, including Mr. Servol, who runs the "Trois-Pommes" grocery store at the corner of Gambon Street near the Hôtel-Dieu, saw a luminous ball, the size of a billiard ball and orange in color, in the axis of Pont-Merlan alley, at a height that was difficult for them to estimate precisely.
This ball moved, in horizontal and vertical trajectories, and its brightness fluctuated in intensity.
The phenomenon lasted a good fifteen minutes, and Mr. Servol, who went outside again around midnight, saw a distant dott, as if the ball had receded.
Such a testimony cannot be doubted. Mr. Servol, his wife, and his daughter all confirmed seeing the ball, and since eight people witnessed the appearance, there it canno be a matter of collective hallucination. Moreover, a witness who practices the honorable profession of a grocer has his feet firmly on the ground and does not easily succumb to daydreaming - lest he miscalculate weights and prices and fail to properly serve his customers.
"I am certain," Mr. Servol told us, "that this ball was not a star, nor did it resemble any known human-made craft."
His words only confirm many similar accounts and leave us no choice but to believe that "they truly exist."
