The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Bourgogne Républicaine, France, June 1, 1950.
An American pilot, Mr. Ira Maxey, living in Fort Worth, stated that he had seen two groups of flying machines heading north of the city. The devices, which were moving silently and at a moderate speed, looked like bananas. The photos taken show in fact curved objects leaving behind them a trail of smoke.
If these flaming bananas leave us dreaming, what can we say about the flying cups that were seen passing in the sky of Bogota in Colombia? Witnesses of the event affirm that the cups in question were not followed but topped with a plume of smoke. It would therefore be more accurate to speak of smoking cups.
After the flying saucers, the cups... It was to be expected. When will the sugar tongs and the teaspoons be available? All of this being destined, as the other one says, to fall back on our coffee pot one day.
Mr. Thonon, president of the Texas fair, nevertheless offers a bonus of 50,000 dollars to anyone who brings him a flying saucer. The residents of Memphis (USA) thought they were granting themselves this bonus at the same time as the end of the world when they saw this cloud of saucers descend on their city. However, it was 55,000 cardboard flying saucers bearing the inscription: "Voucher for a 10% reduction on a pound of sausages, to be sought at Schmith's, butcher"!
