The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Bourgogne Républicaine, Dijon, France, page 4, on January 13, 1954.
See the case file.
Pontailler (from our P.C.). -- Monday afternoon, one discovered, 2 kilometers from Pontailler, a parachute at the end of which was a radio-sounding balloon, which was recovered, with its instruments, by the gendarmerie brigade.
Some have speculated that this was the object that stirred the region on Saturday morning.
The additional information we are providing today proves that this is not the case.
No luck! If this statement had been correct, an irritating problem might have ceased to exist!