The article below was published in the daily newspaper Nord Littoral, Calais, France, page 1, on September 14, 1954.
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Ussel, September 13. -- The gendarmes of the Bugeat brigade, learning this morning by public rumor that a farmer in the hamlet of Mourieras, commune of Bugeat (Corrèze), Mr. Antoine Mazaud, had conversed with the passenger of a flying saucer went to meet the cultivator to confirm these noises.
Mazaud tells them that on September 10, at 8:30 p.m., returning from his fields, he had met on an path, 1500 meters from his home an unknown individual of normal size, wearing a helmet without an earmuff who squeezed his hand and kissed him while saying unintelligible words.
The man then climbed into an unlit cigar-shaped craft, three to four meters in length, taking off vertically, heading west, making no more noise than a bee.
Mr. Mazaud then declares that he did not want to talk about this story because he feared that one would make fun of him; he nevertheless entrusted the matter to his wife who, in turn, communicated it to the neighbors, and this is how the gendarmerie learned of it.
The lieutenant of the gendarmerie commanding the section went to the place where no trace was found.
