Case description
Veterinarian Henri Robert's account entered the October 1954 French saucer coverage through newspapers published immediately after the alleged encounter. Their chronology places his drive on Friday evening, October 15, with his first report around 1 a.m. Saturday. Later catalogues commonly give October 16 and compress a sequence that the early newspaper describes in two phases.
Driving between Mesnières-en-Bray and Londinières, near Baillolet, Robert reportedly saw four orange circles arranged above one another. One separated and moved toward his car in a zigzag path. He described a sensation like an electric shock and temporary failure of his vehicle's controls before the light disappeared.
After continuing for approximately three kilometres, he said a small figure crossed the road and his headlights briefly went out. A pointed, elongated object about three metres long then rose from a roadside slope and departed northward. Later retellings describe the figure as roughly 1.2 metres tall, stocky and dressed in gray-blue clothing, but merge or rearrange parts of the original sequence. The plate combines these reported phases and explicitly labels that compression.
The recovered sources establish a contemporary published allegation, not a verified landing. Later authors disagreed over the precise roadside location and allegations of intoxication; those accusations are disputed rather than proven findings. No recovered independent physical evidence establishes the origin of the lights, figure or object.
