The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Berry Républicain, Bourges, France, page 8, on September 23, 1954.
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Lodève, September 22. -- The mysterious craft commonly called a "flying cigar", previously reported over Puy-de-Dôme and Rome, was seen on Saturday, September 18, at exactly 7:00 p.m. by three trustworthy residents of Lodève, in the northern part of the Hérault department, as it flew at an altitude of about 1,500 meters. The object was heading south.
The witnesses were able to observe for nearly 5 minutes a tapered front section pulling a large, brightly lit fire-red globe, moving without noise at approximately the speed of an ordinary airplane.
Nancy, September 22. -- Mr. Louis Moll, a rural policeman in Oberdorf (Moselle), reported having seen on Sunday, around 9:15 p.m., an intense glow descending from the sky and reaching the ground east of Tromborn.
This glow, resembling that of a neon tube and coming from a fairly large object, changed color. It turned reddish, and Mr. Moll claims to have seen black dots moving silently.
The object, stationary for about 40 seconds, began to rotate and then ascended almost vertically, taking on the appearance of a flattened orange ball before disappearing at lightning speed in a southeast direction. The total duration of the phenomenon was about one minute.
