The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Méridional, France, page 12, on May 24, 1966.
OLERON ISLAND (A.F.P). The people of Oléron on the west coast of the island had their attention drawn by the presence in the sky of a craft that was difficult to determine.
This one, which was moving at an extremely slow pace towards the north, could be followed with the eyes until nightfall.
For some witnesses, it was a satellite, for others, measuring devices usually launched by meteorological services.
Information taken, this last hypothesis has not been confirmed. Yesterday morning, at the first light of dawn, the machine had disappeared.