The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Ile de la Réunion, La Réunion island, on December 30, 1970.
Phone calls at 9 p.m. to the newspaper office.
Several reliable witnesses told us that they saw an unidentified "flying object" in the sky of the Montagne.
According to our correspondents, the craft was in the shape of a ring. Its lower part was brilliantly illuminated, leaving a reddish glow in its wake.
The saucer - since it has to be called by its name - was hovering over Cape Bernard. It siddenly turned to head towards La Possession.