The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Est Républicain, France, page 8, on September 14, 1954.
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Ussel. -- The gendarmes of the Bugeat brigade, having learned yesterday morning from public rumor that a farmer from the hamlet of Mourieras (Corrèze), Mr. Antoine Mazaud, had spoken with the passenger of a flying saucer, went to his home. Mr. Mazaud told them that on September 10, at 8:10 p.m., while returning from his fields, he encountered on a path about 1,500 meters from his house an unknown man of average height, wearing a helmet without earflaps, who shook his hand and embraced him while uttering unintelligible words.
The man then got into a cigar-shaped craft, unlit, about three to four meters long, which took off vertically and departed toward the west, making no more noise than a bee.
Mr. Mazaud added that he had not wanted to speak of this story because he feared people would mock him. He nevertheless confided the matter to his wife, who in turn told the neighbors. And that is how the gendarmerie learned of it.