Perpignan entity encounter — 1954 [HIST-1954-0065]

Damien Figuères, a retired customs officer described in contemporary reporting as fifty-six, said he saw an unusual object near Saint-Assiscle, Perpignan, in October 1954. L'Indépendant's October 16 report specifies Thursday evening, meaning October 14, at about 7:30 p.m. Later summaries often substitute October 15 and 7:50 p.m. The plate uses the month to avoid presenting those versions as settled precision. Figuères was walking with two dogs near the swimming-pool campsite and a road junction when he allegedly saw a large red luminous sphere in the roadway, about thirty metres away. A tall individual dressed like a diver reportedly walked around it and hurried back aboard as the dogs approached. The object then departed rapidly and silently, without flame. Figuères went home to fetch his son-in-law, Lissoni, and they returned to look for evidence. The contemporary account says they found no traces, including on the surrounding wires. Lissoni's later visit is not a second observation of the figure or landing. Subsequent meteor and journalistic-prank suggestions remain hypotheses; the suggested meteor's time does not match the reported evening hour, and a specific prank has not been demonstrated here. This source record concerns the same Figuères event described elsewhere in the Atlas, and is not independent corroboration. It receives its own distinct plate without changing database identity.