The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Echo de la Corrèze, France, on September 30, 1954.
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Figeac. -- On Monday morning, a few kilometers from Figeac, children on their way to the Cint-d'Eau school around 8:30 a.m. reportedly saw a small man dressed in a brick-red jumpsuit, climbing up from a meadow located below the road from Figeac to Cahors.
The stranger approached the children and spoke to them in an incomprehensible language.
The young schoolchildren became frightened and ran away.
The man then descended into the meadow, climbed into a mysterious craft of small dimensions - "a box as big as three school desks," they said.
The craft immediately, quickly, and silently rose vertically and disappeared toward the south.
Was this a real event or just the imagination of children?
Sainte-Bazeille. -- On Saturday, around 8:30 p.m., Mr. R. Segrestan, a shoemaker in Sainte-Bazeille, was about to return home when his attention was drawn to a luminous disc crossing the sky above the Garonne, following its course from upstream to downstream, at an altitude of about 1,500 to 2,000 meters.
Highly phosphorescent, with a rather bluish neon-like hue, the disc moved with some speed. For about ten seconds, Mr. Segrestan was able to observe the phenomenon and call Messrs. Gourgues and Larroderie to witness it. Alas, the roof of the schoolhouse soon blocked their view of the craft.
"The sky was very clear at that moment, not a cloud in sight, and I can assure you that I was fully awake," said Mr. Segrestan regarding the Sainte-Bazeille saucer.
