The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Union, Reims, France, on October 12, 1979.
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The astronomers at the Strasbourg observatory are looking for witnesses to a celestial phenomenon that took place Wednesday evening between 9 and 10 p.m., and which was noticed by several people. An exceptionally bright "bolide", possibly a meteor, was observed. The astronomers want to determine thanks to the testimonies the trajectory and the nature of the object which drew a brilliant trace in the sky.