The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Soir, France, July 19, 1967.
BESANÇON (ACP). -- A 15-year-old girl, Joëlle Rabier, daughter of the carpenter of Arc-sous-Cicon (Doubs) was Monday evening the heroin of an incredible adventure that threw the population of her country into a state of overexcitement.
It was 5 p.m., Joelle had gone for a walk with some children from the village. She was at the edge of the woods, at a place called "Les Blavières", when suddenly, one of the children who was walking slightly ahead of the small group, came back frightened and in tears. Joëlle then approached and what she saw stunned her with emotion: "At the edge of the forest were four mysterious little beings with a head as big as a potato, a height of about 1 m 10, two arms and a protruding abdomen."
"As soon as they saw me, the young girl recounts, these four little black beings, the size of a three-year-old child, fled along the ground at incredible speed towards the woods where they disappeared. As they fled, they exchanged a musical language."
The news of this apparition caused a shock in the country, all the greater because, scientifically this time, a ball of fire of inexplicable origin was observed in the night from Monday to Tuesday, around 1:15 a.m. in the Besançon sky.
Two astronomers from the Observatory were busy following the passage of the satellites "Echo 1" and "Echo 2" in the sky, when their attention was drawn to a circular and incandescent object that appeared in the west and after remaining motionless for 30 seconds above the horizon, flew south at a very high speed.
Throughout the Haut-Doubs, people are convinced that the small beings observed by Joëlle Rabier come from a planet other than Earth and that the ball of fire observed in the night from Monday to Tuesday is none other than their space vehicle.
The searches organized in the woods of Blavières by the inhabitants of the village have yielded nothing.
