The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Alsace, Colmar, France, on January 19, 1954.
Yesterday afternoon, a young man came to our newsroom in Colmar, to report the following phenomenon, seen in the sky, around 4 p.m., by him and several comrades. From the direction of the Munster valley appeared high in the sky, a black ball, thus not luminous, about the size of an orange, which, above Wintzenheim begun a vertical dive, stopped and climbed again straight in the sky emitting white smoke. Arrived at the starting point, the ball followed an horizontal path and performed two times again the maneuver of fall and rise. Finally, it hid behind a cloud.
The boy is very formal in his statements, it only remains to ask: what is this new craft now?
