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 in the sky a large ball of fire that seemed to skim the rooftops and disappeared in record time before their eyes. The best-placed witnesses were the merchants who were on the Place Nationale and who spread the news. But already, a few days earlier, Mr. Roger Bouhan, who was leaning at the window of his apartment in the evening, had seen this same ball of fire for a few seconds. Was it the same meteor that passed over the surrounding localities? It can be supposed.
Furthermore, Miss Jeanne Perrin, living on Rue des Noches, confirms to us: "On Saturday morning, January 9, at 7:50 a.m., as I was going to work by bicycle, my gaze was drawn to the sky by a light. I saw an enormous star, as large as an orange, streaking in a north-south direction. It had a sparkling luminous tail, short, 25 to 35 centimeters, narrow near the star, widening as it went and seeming to form a multitude of small stars in rainbow colors. It did not appear very high in the sky. I saw it for five to seven seconds."
