The article below was published in the daily newspaper Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace, Strasbourg, France, page 2, on August 27, 1952.
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WEST PALM BEACH (Florida). -- The United States Air Force has sent an intelligence officer to West Palm Beach to investigate the report by 30-year-old scoutmaster Mr. D. S. Desvergers, who claimed that a strange aerial object landed in the woods near his home and emitted a "fireball" when he shined his flashlight on it. The local deputy police chief stated that the scoutmaster's arm hair was singed and his cap had three burn holes. He added that the grass in the area appeared to be scorched.
Mr. Desvergers said he was walking through the woods with three scouts when they saw "a bright white light descend from the sky, surrounded by six red lights as it neared the ground." The object, he described, was shaped like half a rubber ball, about a meter thick at the edges and tall enough in the center for a man to stand inside. As he approached the object, he said, he was struck by a "fireball" and lost consciousness.
