The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Journal de Biarritz et de la Côte Basque, France, page 2, on October 14, 1954.
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We were talking about it the other evening, the Eye of Bayonne and I. With much honesty, and also a touch of shame: "At the risk of lowering myself in your eyes," he said to me, "I confess that I have not yet seen one. But I am far from despairing.
"I can, however, tell you of an event whose authenticity I guarantee. A lady most worthy of trust, as respectable for her age as for the perfect balance of her faculties, confided the following to me.
"On Wednesday, October 6, at two o'clock in the afternoon, I was about to enter the Cathedral through the porch facing Rue de l'Abesque when I saw, above the tall trees rising behind the old bishopric, a long white column.
"It was rising straight into the sky in small jerks and reached a height at least double that of a large house. At its top one could see a sort of propeller whirling around.
"I gazed at this phenomenon for a long time — and without the slightest fear — having no one around me whom I could take as a witness to this vision. When I left the cathedral, everything had disappeared.
"I expected to see, the next day, the newspapers report an apparition that could not have gone unnoticed. They did not make the slightest mention of it. Yet I am certain I was not the victim of a hallucination..."
"I didn't quite know what to reply to this confidence," continued the Eye of Bayonne. "But when I, in turn, shared it with others, the explanation was immediately given to me. It was certainly the long white vertical trail left behind by a jet plane (the propeller seen at the top) which, precisely that day, passed through the sky of Bayonne."
So this time, then, a mystery clarified. Could not many of the extraordinary cases readily cited by the newspapers be resolved with the same simplicity?...
PEILLIC
