The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Républicain Lorrain, Metz, France, page 6, on September 22, 1954.
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Clermont-Ferrand. -- Several residents of Clermont reported seeing, above the Puy-de-Dôme, a luminous craft of very elongated oval shape, seemingly moving rather slowly toward the northeast.
Four people in particular claimed to have observed the craft for two minutes before it disappeared while gaining altitude. All the witnesses were adamant: no sound was heard. It could not have been a plane.
Moulins. -- A resident of Moulins had gone for the weekend to Rongères, a small commune in the Allier, when on Sunday afternoon, around 4:30 p.m., he saw a cigar-shaped craft in the sky, and a few seconds later, a second object shaped like a globe. This globe, very bright, described a circle in 15 seconds and quickly headed southeast.
This testimony became known only Monday evening, following a report that the resident of Moulins, whose identity has not been disclosed, sent to the prefect of the Allier.
