The article below was published in the daily newspaper Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace, Strasbourg, France, page 18, on May 9, 1952.
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- I saw a flying saucer...
- Me too...
Never two without three... Indeed, the third member of this group of nighttime strollers who were peacefully walking along the Quai des Bateliers had also spotted a saucer—of the flying type.
The next day, the Strasbourg observatory was alerted, but they hadn't detected anything, hadn't seen a thing. And for good reason...
Because the so-called flying saucer was in fact nothing more than a snow-white, fluffy cloud drifting across the sky, playing hide-and-seek with a spotlight.
And each time the spotlight caught up with the cloud, it transformed into "a round, flat thing" that moved, "a saucer of sorts," affirmed the observers, misled by appearances.
This game of hide-and-seek could have gone on much longer, had the cloud not dissipated in an attempt to escape its pursuer.
... And with it, the mysterious "saucer" vanished.
