The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Midi Libre, France, on May 2, 1978.
Orange. -- Around 1:15 a.m. Sunday morning, Mr. Thierry Bougey, 18 years old, storekeeper in Pierrelatte, domiciled in Mornas (Vaucluse), accompanied by Miss Chantal Solignac, 18 years old, declared to have seen coming from the South-East a flying saucer with a diameter of 50 meters of which four of its lights kept flashing.
For twelve seconds, the two young people were able to follow the flying object and hear the sound of an engine identical to that of a power generator.