The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Courrier de Saône-et-Loire, France, page 6, on October 21, 1954.
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DIENAY. -- On October 17, while out hunting, Mr. Auguste Bricard of Di'nay discovered in a pine plantation a device suspended from a small balloon and a parachute.
The white lacquered box bearing the inscription "Radio-Sonde, U.S. Army" was handed over by the mayor to the Is-sur-Tille gendarmerie, who will forward it to the military authorities.
Perhaps the parachute, which was red in color, was mistaken during its atmospheric descent for a flying saucer!
Saturday evening, around 9:30 p.m., three trustworthy workers, Messrs. Mongouachon, Dorier, and Lenet, were returning home after a tiring day when one of them exclaimed in surprise: "a strange craft."
Indeed, in the sky, at very high altitude, they saw an orange-colored ball about 20 cm in diameter, leaving behind it a luminous trail about twenty meters long.
This ball was moving from east to west at dizzying speed, making a sound similar to the whistling of a rocket.
Was it a flying saucer?
