The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Journal de Biarritz et de la Côte Basque, France, pages 1 and 3, on October 21, 1954.
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The phenomena observed are said to be due to the condensation of airplane fuel vapors and... the imagination of certain people
While people of varying credibility continue to claim they have seen saucers, umbrellas, tureens, or bananas in the sky, many people yesterday witnessed a curious phenomenon in the Rhône Valley that might perhaps provide an explanation for the mystery.
After the passage of a jet aircraft at 10,000 meters altitude, witnesses saw the formation of sorts of disks or elongated objects, which they immediately declared to be flying saucers. Several of these "objects" descended toward the ground, and it was then discovered that they were a kind of light veil with the consistency of rubber, which gradually, under the influence of temperature, evaporated.
It appears that this was a phenomenon caused by the condensation of vapors from the fuel used by the "stratojet"...
As these observations confirm those made by a resident of Oloron and by a cer-
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tain other observers of so-called "saucers," it is not unreasonable to think that all the embellishments accompanying the account of the actual events are the work of pranksters or of journalists in need of copy.
