Lanuejols, France: Large disk — 25 September 1817
At 6:25 P.M. three travelers who had just visited the roman monument near Lanuejols and
were going through the “Causse de Mende” to reach that town saw in the south-southeast (towards Villefort) a luminous object, “reddish in color, in the shape of a disk three or four times larger than the full Moon.” It disappeared 2 or 3 minutes later. The sky was hazy and a fine rain was falling.
Source: Le Midi Libre, 25 September 1954. We have not traced an earlier source. Case: W345