This article was published in the daily newspaper Le Midi Libre, France, page 1, le 5 février 1979.
Yesterday, even before the day rose, an "unidentified flying object" was observed by residents of Montpelliers, flying over their city. Among them, our collaborator Paul Pansanel took this photograph of the U.F.O. above the of Croix-d'Argent district.
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Note: Possibly a balloon in the ray of the rising sun still behind the horizon for ground observers.