The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Courrier Picard, France, page 2, on September 28, 1954.
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BOURGES, September 27. -- Mr. Robert Patient, 35, assistant inspector of the P.T.T., living in Bourges, who, Thursday evening, drove to Vasselay, with his wife and children, aged 11 and 10, declared that he had seen, that night, in the hamlet of Jou, north of Bourges, a singular object, of extreme brilliance, seeming to descend into a field.
At the alleged landing spot, a glowing reflection appeared. An incandescent filament, about 50 meters long, was in the center of the hemispherical object, the diameter of which approached about fifteen meters.
For twenty to thirty seconds, it was dark. Suddenly there was a new light above the horizon.
Mr. Patient, who had stopped his car, left, followed silently for a few hundred meters by the object, which then disappeared.
Other witnesses from Bourges, from Saint-Dolchard and from Vierzon, claim to have seen a luminous object at concordant hours.
