The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Est Républicain, France, le 6 novembre 1990.
7:15 p.m. last night. Mr. Michel Ballandier, carpenter, road from Raon-aux-Bois to Saint-Nabord, was still working outside. He says: "I heard a buzzing noise in the sky. I looked up. It was huge. About fifteen small orange, red and white colored dots of light, moving at the same speed, all grouped in a rhombus".
Mr. Ballandier couldn't believe his eyes: "It lasted fifteen seconds, but it was fifty times bigger than an airliner", he adds.
And since he was not the only one to have observed the phenomenon disappearing above the Saint-Mont, the Saint-Nabor carpenter was able to sleep peacefully.
(Read in the Region pages)