The article below was published in the daily newspaper Paris-Normandie, France, on July 9, 1954.
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Mr. Harold Dahl has just sent the University of Chicago a package containing a piece of metal allegedly thrown off by a flying saucer observed on June 25 in the Puget Sound area (State of Washington).
The sender claims that he was aboard a boat with two other persons when six enormous circular-shaped discs appeared through the clouds. According to him, five of these objects, about sixty meters in diameter, revolved around the sixth. They appeared pierced by a central opening surrounded by a row of circles resembling portholes.
Also, the pilot of a commercial aircraft reported that he had allegedly encountered a flying saucer which, caught in the turbulence of his aircraft, disintegrated and disappeared. About seven meters wide, said the aviator, the object resembled an oyster shell in the center of which a pilot could have taken his place.
A few hours later, he added that he had made up the whole story to amuse his companions and that he had been extremely surprised to find himself taken seriously.
Meanwhile, Australian radio announced that flying saucers had been observed maneuvering in the skies over Sydney.
