The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Est Républicain, France, on October 22, 1954.
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since the passage of a "Stratojet" plane
Vienne. -- A "Stratojet" plane which, each day, flies over the valley of the Rhone, at an altitude of approximately 10.000 meters, was mistaken, Tuesday, by certain people, for a flying saucer.
The president monitor of the Aréo-Club of Vienne dissuaded at once the witnesses, too imaginative. But a strange phenomenon occurred after the passage of the powerful jet. Indeed, in the sky, kinds of parachutes animated of odd movements and having the aspect of light veils formed, and soon, reached the ground.
A very soft material at the touch
The witnesses of the phenomenon grabbed this material, very soft at the touch and having a little the consistency of rubber. While arriving on the ground, it volitilized, probably under the influence of the temperature.
One of the witnesses put a little of the substance in a box and had it photographed at once. A few hours later, what remained in this box, although it was sealed, had evaporated.
The phenomenon, due to condensation in the rarefied and cold atmosphere of certain elements of the fuel of the "Stratojet" can cause white or iridescent formations moving at high speed at great altitude and thus generate more or less whimsical interpretations.
This observation, made above the airport of Vienne, is identical to that already reported in its time by an Oloron resident.
The flying "plate" always comes at the same hour
This explanation does not prevent the flying saucers from disturbing the minds of a certain number of people, but the appearances are definitely fewer all the same.
It is today, in Indonesia, that the strangest phenomenon is located. Tuesday evening, the population of Bondowoso, in the state of Java, was struck of terror by seeing a white and green disc which passed at high speed above the city and disappeared in a half-minute. The witnesses described the object as a "large plate" animated a rotary movement.
It is the second time that the residents of Bondowoso witness a phenomenon of this kind. The first appearance of a "strange object" reportedly took place on July 25, at the same hour.
