The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Liberté du Morbihan, Lorient, France, page 10, on October 22, 1954.
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Vienne. -- A "Stratojet" plane, which flies daily over the Rhône Valley at an altitude of around 10,000 meters, was mistaken yesterday by some people for a flying saucer.
The President and instructor of the Vienne Aero Club immediately reassured the overly imaginative witnesses, but a strange phenomenon occurred after the passage of the powerful jet plane. Indeed, in the sky there appeared sorts of parachutes moving in bizarre ways and resembling light veils, which soon reached the ground.
Witnesses of the phenomenon grabbed this very soft substance, which felt somewhat like rubber. Upon reaching the ground, it evaporated, probably due to the temperature.
One of the witnesses put some of the substance in a box and had it photographed immediately. A few hours later, what remained in the box, although it was tightly sealed, had evaporated.
This phenomenon, caused by the condensation in the rarefied and cold atmosphere of certain elements in the "Stratojet's" fuel, can create white or iridescent formations moving at high speed and high altitude, thus giving rise to more or less fanciful interpretations.
