The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Liberté de l'Est, France, on February 16, 1975.
Monday February 20 in the evening, around 9 p.m., a grocer from Carcès (Var), Alain Fraisse, witnessed quite an apparition: for a few minutes, he saw a U.F.O. It was, he told the gendarmerie, a circular object, bulging at one end, about 16 meters long, with 5 lighted portholes and also lights on the lower part and at the end of the thinnest object, stabilized at 5 or 6 meters from the ground.
This craft was silent. He did not specify if he had been able to glimpse, despite his emotion, the mysterious passengers. Yesterday, specialists, in particular that of the Varoise Society for the Study of Spatial Phenomena and the Association for the Detection and Study of Spatial Phenomena, came to investigate this new extraterrestrial appearance.
