The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Ardennais, France, page 5, on September 28, 1954.
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BOURGES. -- Mr. Robert Patient, 35, an assistant inspector with the P.T.T., living in Bourges, who on Thursday evening was driving to Vasselay with his wife and his children aged 11 and 10, states that he saw that night, at the hamlet of Jou, north of Bourges, a singular object of extreme brightness, which seemed to be descending into a field.
At the presumed landing point, a reddish glow appeared. An incandescent filament about 50 meters long was at the center of the object, hemispherical in shape, with a diameter approaching some fifteen meters.
For twenty to thirty seconds, there was darkness.
Suddenly, a new glow appeared above the horizon. Mr. Patient, who had stopped his car, set off again, silently followed for several hundred meters by the object, which then disappeared. Other witnesses from Bourges, from Saint-Dolchard and from Vierzon claim to have seen, at corresponding times, a luminous object.