The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Républicain Lorrain, France, on August 20, 1980.
Around 11:20 p.m., Monday evening, a resident of Cents claimed to have seen a luminous orange object near the collective antenna of this suburb. "It was as I was getting out of my car that I suddenly saw an orange glow of a round or oval shape approaching me up to a hundred meters away. An object of the same shape but much smaller appeared then detached from it by diffusing an intense light. But soon it came closer again to the much larger object and the whole thing went back at high speed towards the west. I can swear to you that I had no hallucination and besides I don't believe in flying saucers". Since Monday evening this resident of the Frommes city has been much less assertive. He added: "It couldn't have been a plane because I'm too used to seeing them fly over the house and I know their three flashing lights well."
