This article was published in the daily newspaper Le Monde, France, on July 6, 1947.
In several points of their vast country, from Washington to Los Angeles, from the Mexican border to the limits of Canada, the Americans have observed for a few days strange and mysterious atmospheric bolides. Is this a natural phenomenon, which has its theatre in deep space? or of latest development in aviation?
Our colleagues of the American news services lose themselves in assumptions between the "saucer" and the "flying pancake", nickname of the last-born tail-less of the American navy.
However the experts remain silent. It is very difficult to experiment in the atmospheric laboratory without being at least seen.