The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Croix du Nord, Lille, Pas-de-Calais, France, page 7, September 26, 1954.
Six residents of Langeac (Haute-Loire) saw a white gleam move in the sky towards the south.
A resident of Gelles (Puy-de-Dôme) said she saw in the sky a luminous craft of elongated shape "like that of a cigar." The craft moved silently.
A resident of Clermont-Ferrand picked mushrooms: he saw in the sky, at high altitude, a luminous trail "slightly colored in pink."
Rugby players in training at the Vichy Stadium, saw a "flying cigar".