The article below was published in the daily newspaper Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace, Strasbourg, France, page 2, on September 23, 1952.
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ROME. -- Professor Giuseppe Armellini, director of the Rome Observatory, considers the excitement over "flying saucers" to be absurd. On Sunday evening, he had the opportunity to observe the famous discs through binoculars, while newspapers were receiving dozens of phone calls about them. "They are simply heat lightning in the shape of a ball," he claims. Professor Armellini had already stated, during the recent international astronomical congress, that "almost all the world's leading astronomers agree that most people mistake either heat lightning or meteors for flying saucers. We can rule out the hypothesis of war devices coming from our planet or another one."
