Case description
On 24 September 1954, around 09:00, widow Geoffroy and Gisèle Fin independently described a machine in a clearing at En Bécard near Diges. The older woman was walking toward a washhouse, while the teenager tended goats with her dogs on another path. They viewed the scene from different positions and distances, rather than standing together throughout an encounter.
Contemporary interviews describe a dull grey-brown or olive-toned object, several metres long, resting on bars or skids. A normally proportioned man in dark clothing and a cap or helmet stood or crouched beside it. Fin said he appeared to be working on it; an open hatch may have looked like a central bulge from the older woman's viewpoint. Neither woman actually watched the machine land or depart. Narrow dry marks in the dew were reported afterward, without an authenticated extraordinary material sample.
Charles Garreau investigated and favoured a military helicopter. Later discussions debated which model could fit the dimensions and setting; an exact aircraft identification is not established here. This conventional finding is central to the record and is obscured when a catalogue calls the pilot an alien occupant. The plate therefore illustrates the helicopter explanation, explicitly labels its uncertain model, and combines the women's separate viewpoints without adding nonhuman anatomy.
