The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Républicain Lorrain, Metz, France, page 9, on September 28, 1954.
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Bourges. -- Mr. Robert Patient, 35 years old, deputy inspector of the P.T.T., residing in Bourges, who on Thursday evening was driving to Vasselay with his wife and children, aged 11 and 10, reported having seen, that night, in the hamlet of Jou, north of Bourges, a strange object of extreme brightness, seemingly descending into a field.
At the presumed landing site, a reddish glow appeared. An incandescent filament about fifty meters long was visible at the center of the hemispherical object, which had a diameter of roughly fifteen meters.
For twenty to thirty seconds, there was darkness. Suddenly, a new glow appeared above the horizon. Mr. Patient, who had stopped his car, resumed driving, followed silently for several hundred meters by the object, which then disappeared.
Other witnesses from Bourges, Saint-Dolchard, and Vierzon also claimed to have seen a luminous object at corresponding times.