The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Bien Public, Dijon, France, on June 18, 1952.
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Paris, June 17. -- The Paris Airport management received the following report from the Le Bourget control tower on Friday morning: "Today at one o'clock, while the sky was overcast, a ball of fire larger than a star crossed the sky in the southwest of the field after a long period of immobility. This phenomenon was also reported by the Air-France P.B.E.P.M. mail plane, coming from Lyon. The ball disappeared over the horizon, sparkling and moving more and more quickly."
"Let us note that, during the day of the 12th, at 1:45 p.m., twice a person telephoned from Montmartre to report the presence of a silver disk to the north of Paris."
At Paris airport, they simply pointed out that the spherical craft thus observed could be a simple atmospheric phenomenon and that there was nothing to indicate in any case that it was a flying saucer.
[sic] as witnesses, victims no doubt of the current psychosis, believed they could affirm.
This opinion seems to be confirmed. Indeed, neither the Paris observatory nor the Astronomical Society of France recorded any particular observations during the night of Thursday to Friday.
