◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
The Montluçon Disc and Crescent
At about 21:00 one evening in late 1953 a civil servant in Montluçon named Madet watched a brilliant white disc for two minutes before it raced off towards the Auvergne mountains, then saw a red crescent three times the size of a first-quarter moon streak away to the south-west. The CIA knew it from a Nice-Matin item it collected in a foreign-press digest. This is the record of what was reported, not a verdict on what was over the Allier.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- The Montluçon Disc and Crescent is a reported UAP case in Montluçon, Allier, France, late 1953, before 12 December.
- A Montluçon civil servant named Madet reported a brilliant white disc that stayed in view for two minutes, then raced off towards the Auvergne mountains without seeming to change height.
- Shortly afterwards, the report says, he saw a red crescent three times as large as the first-quarter moon speed away to the south-west.
- The account reached the CIA as a Nice-Matin item it collected in a foreign-press digest, not as a CIA investigation.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 1 distinct source and 1 claimant on its resolved list.
- The archive grades it L0 · SINGLE ACCOUNT — the archive holds one account of it, from a single source.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-03; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
EVENT DATE
late 1953, before 12 December
LOCATION
Montluçon, Allier · France
COORDS
46.34°N 2.60°E
INDEPENDENCE
L0 · SINGLE ACCOUNT
SOURCES
1 distinct
CLAIMANTS
1
STATUS
Known from released government records
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-03 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
