The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Figaro, Paris, France, page 4, on October 8, 1954.
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Two employees of Orly Airport, Messrs. Raymond Catelle and Charles Sirest, stated to the Air Police services that they saw, on the night from Saturday to Sunday, around 9:30 p.m., a flying saucer crossing the sky over Orly from east to west "at the speed of a jet plane."
Reaching the area above the commune of Paray-Vieille-Poste, that is, on the edge of the west-east runway, the mysterious craft, which according to the witnesses was flying at an altitude of 300 meters, hovered for 10 seconds while spinning on itself and emitting beams that reflected intensely on the ground. Then it resumed its course toward the east and disappeared.
Messrs. Catelle and Sirest specified that it could not have been a weather balloon, and even less an optical illusion.
