The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Montagne, France, le 27 mars 1979.
Montbeliard. -- The tenants of a building in Haudincourt (Doubs) near Montbéliard, owner of a hamster, specified that they had seen, Sunday, around 8:45 p.m., through the windows of their apartment, located on the third floor, a light moving vertically in the sky.
Going out on the balcony, they saw nothing any more, but realized that their little animal was in the worst possible condition. The police took their statement and noted the slow death of the hamster.