The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Télégramme de Brest et de l'Ouest, Brest, France, page 2, on November 2, 1954.
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Calcutta, 1st (U.P.). -- Hundreds of people in northern Bengal claim to have seen luminous objects crossing the sky at fantastic speeds yesterday.
In Calcutta, luminous umbrella-shaped objects were seen.
But these reports coincide with the festival of Diwali, a time when lighted balloons are released to show the way to paradise for the deceased ancestors who have not yet found it.