The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Est Républicain, France, on October 26, 1954.
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VERDUN (ed.). If we are to believe the statement of the librarian of the city of Verdun, the mysterious craft seen in the sky already preoccupied our ancestors.
Indeed, Canon Boulhaut discovered yesterday a text from the "Chronicles of Nuremberg," an incunabula by Hartmann Scheden, dating from 1493 and coming from the library of the Abbey of Saint-Airy.
In this book - which is otherwise precious - written in Latin, Scheden states that in 1034, a beam of fire of odd dimensions was seen in the sky, sailing from south to east, facing the setting sun, and that it finally fell to earth.
This laconic text is illustrated with a naive and touching sketch.
A kind of log can be seen in a blue sky - a prefiguration of the flying cigar - surrounded by red flames sailing above green mounds.
Nothing new under the sky!
