The article below was published in the daily newspaper Sud Ouest, France, on March 24, 1979.
Two residents of the Charente Mssrs. Jean-Marie Brossard, residing at La Chapelle-des-Pots and André Mounier, residing in Ecoyeux, saw Thursday at around 9:25 p.m., a U.F.O. for two to three minutes. The unidentified flying object, a luminous ring of 5 to 10 meters in diameter that has taken the direction of the southwest was thus seen at ground level along the edge of the 910 bis country road, between the places called Moinet and Valin,n in the town of Cercoux. One of the two observers reportedly even had the time to take pictures. The observatory of Floirac, alerted, did not notice anything.