The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Bien Public, Dijon, France, page 3, on January 13, 1954.
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On Saturday morning, several residents of Dole saw a large fireball in the sky that seemed to skim the rooftops and disappeared before their eyes in record time. Those with the best view were the vendors in the Place Nationale, who spread the news. But already, a few days earlier, Mr. Roger Bouhan, who was leaning against the window of his apartment in the evening, saw the same fireball for a few seconds. Was it the same meteor that passed over the nearby localities? It is possible.
Meanwhile, Miss Jeanne Perrin, who lives on Rue des Noches, confirmed to us: "Saturday morning, January 9, at 7:50 a.m., while cycling to work, my attention was drawn to the sky by a light. I saw a huge star, the size of an orange, shooting from north to south. It had a luminous, sparkling tail, short—25 to 30 centimeters—narrow at the star's base, widening outward and appearing to be made up of countless tiny rainbow-colored stars. It didn't seem very high in the sky. I saw it for five to seven seconds."
