This article was published in the daily newspaper Le Parisien Libéré, France, page 3, on March 6, 1974.
SEVERAL PEOPLE, among whom Mr. Perrin, senior researcher at the C.N.R.S. [French Science Center], who was in Gien to give a conference there, observed the evolution in the sky, above this city, of a luminous object resembling a ball of fire of great dimension. However, the radar sets of the bases of Bricy (the Loiret) and Avord (the Cher) did not detect anything.