The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Nouvelle République du Centre Ouest, Poitiers, France, on August 17, 1998.
Some people from Poitiers saw a UFO moving in the sky, around 1 am, on the night of Thursday to Friday. Some were still reeling when they called us to tell us the news.
In Migné-Auxances and Poitiers, four people observed a luminous triangle moving at low altitude. The mayor of Moulismes, Marcel Dufour, the oldest mayor in Vienne, is more precise: on Monday 10 August, around 10.30pm, he was taking the air on his balcony when he saw "a large shape with two spots points of light on the sides, a white headlight at the front and behind, a burst of sparks. I saw it for 5 to 6 seconds, flying about 100 m above the ground, horizontally and not very fast. I called my wife and the craft tilted. It may have fallen."
If Mr Dufour did not speak out earlier, it was because he was afraid that people would not believe him. But he saw in the newspaper that 150 people had observed a similar object in the sky of the Ardennes. So he had not dreamed it.
