The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Liberté de l'Est, France, on February 20, 1950.
Lons le Saulnier. -- Friday evening at 6:50 p.m., as the last rays of daylight were about to give way to night, the inhabitants of Peppigny (Jura) who were going about their daily business in the streets saw in the sky an immense elongated fireball resembling a child's kite and moving from east to west. This fireball, according to observers, turned bright red then dark purple before disappearing behind the Martaigu hill where it finally crashed.
