The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Rouergue Républicain, France, on October 16, 1954.
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GRAULHET. - A tanner from Graulhet stated he saw yesterday late in the afternoon at high altitude, a silver craft heading to the Northwest; which he initially thought to be a jet plane, but discerning no contrail, the tanner fetched a binocular and distinctly saw a wide flexible disk that undulated on itself while traveling at a high speed.
Then the craft suddenly exploded in flight. A silver ball, one meter in diameter, escaped the mass and went on and soon disappeared from view, while the rest of the craft fell in several pieces similar to sheets of various sizes hovering in the sky and some clung to telegraphic poles. Fifteen people have testified of this weird event and fragments of material was collected. They come in the form of bonded silver threads crumbling when touched.
