The 1954 French flap:

Three testimonies confirm the passage of an "unidentified flying object" Tuesday evening in our sky

In our issue yesterday, we published the testimony of Mr. M. S., who, on Tuesday around 7:30 p.m., while approaching the intersection of Rue de Vandeuil and Rue de l'Arquebuse, saw an unidentified object in the sky. This fact is now firmly established, as yesterday we collected two more testimonies regarding the same phenomenon.

Mr. W. B., 25 years old, residing in Valcourt, was alone in the street at the center of the village Tuesday evening, between 7:15 and 7:45 p.m. He had gone to fetch his milk from the neighboring farm. Suddenly, he saw a curious object that appeared to him the size of an aspirin tablet, orange in color, moving at very high speed in a northwest-southwest direction, beyond the Côte des Bourguignons, at an altitude the witness could not specify.

The object left behind a trail of multicolored sparks. It disappeared instantly after crossing half of the sky. The weather was partly cloudy, which might explain this sudden disappearance. A few moments later, Mr. W. B. told the farmer's wife, who was serving him his milk, what he had just seen. He could not have suspected that the same phenomenon had been observed elsewhere.

Indeed, a ten-and-a-half-year-old boy also saw the object Tuesday evening. This boy, Jean-Pierre H., who lives with his parents on Rue du Colonel-Raynal, was playing in Rue de l'Arquebuse opposite the construction sites. When he returned to his parents at 7:45 p.m., he boasted of having seen something round, white in color, surrounded by smoke, passing through the sky in the direction Théâtre Municipal-Marne.

At first, the parents thought it was an overactive imagination on the part of their son, but they changed their opinion yesterday morning upon reading l'Union.

Mr. W. B.'s testimony was already significant on its own, and three concordant testimonies, coming from respectable people who do not know each other, carry even more weight in this regard.

Only one point does not match in these testimonies: the color of the observed object. Bright green for one, white for another, orange for the third. In truth, such color variations in "unidentified flying objects" have already been reported; they are, after all, just one aspect of the phenomenon, inexplicable as a whole.