The article below was published in the daily newspaper Var-Matin - République, France, on January 1-2, 1950.
New York, December 31. -- During a meeting organized by a scientific periodical, the journalist Fletcher Pratt, former war correspondent, claims with reference to "confidential sources" that several members of the crew of a flying saucer coming from another world had been killed by atmospheric pressure when their craft had entered the atmosphere.
The journalist added that the bodies of "these aviators" would be in the process of being dissected. Their size would be 90 cm. The author of this curious "revelation" did not specify where and when these sky explorers had been discovered.
