The article below was published in the daily newspaper Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace, Strasbourg, France, page 1, on July 5, 1947.
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WASHINGTON (AP). -- The latest craze in the United States is to look up at the sky in search of mysterious objects that have been making headlines for the past few days.
Last week, in fact, nine mysterious projectiles were seen crossing the sky in western Washington State at an apparent speed of nearly 2,000 km per hour.
Similar phenomena were later reported from El Paso in Texas, Vancouver, and many other locations.
It was initially thought to be the "Flying Pancake" or a wingless aircraft, but naval authorities announced that the "Pancake" had not left its base.
According to Canadian witnesses, these objects resemble a "tea saucer" and cross the horizon in thirty seconds without making any noise, while emitting a blinding flash of light.
For their part, radars detected no foreign object in the sky, and the military confirmed that no jet-propelled projectile had been launched.
The mystery of the "flying saucers" remains unsolved.
