The article below was published in the newspaper The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Indiana, USA, page 1, on July 7, 1947.
JANE CAMPBELL, 17, of Chillicothe, Ohio, exhibits an unidentified mechanism which fell from a balloon and landed on her father's farm. The father, Sherman Campbell, said the [?] object, through optical illusion, may have caused some of the reports of "flying discs." (International Soundphoto).
Note: This object or another, similar one, found in Chillicothe was exlplained by a reader of another newspaper 3 days later.