This article was published in the daily newspaper Libération-Champagne, in the Aude, France, on August 16, 1998.
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It was learned from the mayor yesterday that suspicious traces in an orchard and noises heard by several people, Monday and Friday in Prauthoy, a village in the south of Langres, let think of the residents that a flying object landed on their community.
"Monday, at 11:00 p.m., we were several people to hear an important, long, noise, less deafening than a plane's noise", said the mayor, Philippe Badet. For him, it was "a flying object, but not a plane." Some twenty people saw gleams, he added.
A neighbor saw "two red lights and one white light in the sky, which did not change place."
Friday, suspicious traces were discovered in an orchard. These dry grass traces form two 25 meters length parallel lines, 70 cm broad, and spaced from approximately 8 to 9 m one of the other, with a triangle in the center, according to the testimony of the mayor.
The firemen and the gendarmes of Langres and Chaumont took photographs on the premises. Samples of ground were taken. The whole of the results is negative, it was learned rom the gendarmerie.
A team of research and radioactive identification proceeded to measure radioactivity, which also proved to be negative.
At the beginning of week, an unidentified flying object had been observed by at least 150 people in the area of Sedan and Carignan (the Ardennes), according to the departmental responsible of the Center of studies OVNI-France [UFO-France].
