St. Leonard DE Noblat, FR being encounter — 1914

The Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat catalogue entry appears to refer to a family account from nearby Lajoumard, Haute-Vienne, France. The event was placed in February or March 1914, around twilight. Investigators Joël Mesnard and Jean-Marie Bigorne reportedly learned of it in 1978 from the original observer’s daughter, Mrs Champagne, after her father had died. It is therefore a decades-later family recollection, rather than a recovered 1914 statement. The farmer was said to be returning home when he noticed a round green luminous object at or just above a hill called Les Pierrières. From approximately one hundred to two hundred metres away he reportedly saw several very small figures emerge, move around and return inside. The object then rose in a spiral or zigzag before departing rapidly. No reliable face, clothing, exact count or conversation is preserved. His daughter said he had told the family but asked them not to discuss the experience; a brother reportedly also remembered the story. That supports a family tradition without independently verifying its extraordinary content. The illustration shows a representative farmer, a distant round green glow and a few small unresolved silhouettes. Its caption identifies the retrospective source and approximate appearances, avoiding a precise alien anatomy or a securely measured craft.