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Flying saucers, France, 1952:

The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Bourgogne Républicaine, Dijon, France, on June 18, 1952.

Flying saucers are officially reported for the first time in France

In overcast weather, a ball of fire, larger than a star, crossed the sky of the Paris region

Paris, 17. -- "This night at 1 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 disappeared on the horizon, sparkling and moving more and more quickly. It should be noted that during the day, at 1:45 p.m., twice, a person telephoned us from Montmartre to report to the control tower the presence of a silver disk to the north of Paris."

This official press release from Le Bourget airport, the first in French aeronautics, has just provided a key piece or voluminous file on flying saucers. It was yesterday afternoon that the disk was first reported. It was then motionless northeast of Paris and slowly began to move in jerks. A very light red halo seemed to surround the craft. For several minutes, it continued its moves, suddenly rising very high, then slowly descending.

Finally, it began a descent like a dead leaf, turned abruptly and disappeared. A curious connection is apparent: ​​the two photographers from Rio, the witnesses from La Roche sur Yon, those from Mostaganem, had also reported this characteristic of a descent like a dead leaf.

In the middle of the night, around 2 o'clock, the control tower at Le Bourget airport also observed an unusual dsiplay: in the southwest direction, at about 30° above the horizon, a red ball appeared and stopped. It remained like this for almost an hour.

The Nice-Paris mail plane that arrived at that moment also saw this strange phenomenon and reported it to the control tower. As they landed, the ball began to move slowly towards the west and then disappeared after about ten minutes. And almost everywhere, in the sky of France, the discs were reported. In Cholet in the Meuse, in Seine et Oise, above the Meuse. Their presence poses a question mark more imperiously than ever.

A question mark that the American services would like to resolve if we judge, according to information which reveals that new research is being undertaken by teams of scientists and engineers. The University of California is developing a special camera for flying saucers in order to determine their composition and the nature of their lighting. On the other hand, the research services are developing a method of detecting flying saucers using cameras mounted on radar-controlled telescopes which themselves react to a Geiger counter.

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