Bouzais entity encounter — 1954

The Bouzais record derives from a September 1954 newspaper account about a vineyard keeper named Mercier at Le Grand Tertre. After finding grapes missing, he allegedly stayed late to catch the thieves. Around 10:30 p.m. on September 28, he said a luminous mass descended approximately fifty metres away. Three men reportedly came from the light and moved about while he felt unable to move. The earliest wording says that when he opened his eyes everything had disappeared; later catalogues turn this into an unequivocal loss of consciousness. He allegedly fled to the Café du Commerce looking pale and frightened. Neither a resolved craft outline nor distinctive nonhuman anatomy was supplied, and three men should not automatically become small alien occupants. Later regional inquiries by Desbois and Bourron could not securely identify the witness or reconcile the named vineyard and café with Bouzais. Suggested locations included neighbouring Drevant and Saint-Amand-Montrond, with conflicting Grand Tertre/Petit Tertre references. Bourron suspected journalistic fabrication, but this is not a recovered confession by Mercier. The case remains doubtful and geographically unresolved. Its plate therefore labels the unconfirmed witness and site and shows only indistinct human silhouettes beside a luminous mass.