The article below was published in the weekly newspaper Le Segréen, Segré county, Maine-et-Loire, France, page 3, on September 4, 1954.
See the case file.
Monday evening, around 8:30 p.m., Mrs. Poirier, who lives near the Church, and her neighbor, Mr. Samson, saw a bright disc-shaped glow in the sky, followed by a fairly short luminous tail.
Its speed was great and the direction of the phenomenon was south north.