The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Midi Libre, France, on July 12, 1978.
White and emitting red and green signals, a U.F.O. stopped for 30 minutes in the sky of Lons (Pyrénées-Atlantiques).
A smaller, orange-colored craft broke away from the larger one and disappeared behind the mountains. The mother-U.F.O. was soon to follow.