The article below was published in the daily newspaper Combat, Paris, France, page 8, on August 25, 1954.
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WASHINGTON, August 24. -- The aviation magazine "Aviation Week Magazine" announced on Monday that two enormous meteors are currently orbiting the Earth, at distances of 450 and 1,000 kilometers respectively.
The magazine specifies that the announcement of this discovery had thrown senior aviation officers into confusion, which only ended when Dr. Lincoln La Paz, director of the extraterrestrial research institute at the University of New Mexico, established that it was a natural phenomenon and not artificial objects.
"Aviation Week Magazine" adds that Dr. La Paz had to go to the Palomar Observatory to confirm that they were indeed meteors.
