The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Parisien, France, page 8, on February 9, 1989.
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MONDAY evening, around 11:30 p.m., in Saint-Martory (Haute-Garonne), while driving home with his wife and son, André Rieux saw the "thing"... A UFO? "In any case, a huge object in the shape of a rugby ball, about thirty meters long, which seemed to be hovering in the air... We were blinded... At that moment, the car's headlights went out..."
Disturbingly, several dozen people had the same "apparition" at the same time on Monday. Sometimes, while they were miles away, as far as Limoux or Carcassonne in the Aude...
The police found nothing yesterday when they searched the place. No traces or objects. As for the specialists at the nearby National Center for Space Studies in Toulouse, they put forward an explanation: "It could be the re-entry into the atmosphere of a satellite, a rocket or a meteorite..."
