The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Midi Libre, France, on August 18, 1976.
THE GENDARMES OF BRIOUDE revealed on Monday only that an unidentified flying object had been seen by around twenty people on the evening of August 4, in Vieille-Brioude (Haute-Loire). A female resident, who had observed the phenomenon with binoculars, said that the cylindrical and shiny object disappeared like a flame that goes out.