The article underneath has been published in the daily newspaper Le Monde, Paris, France, on July 6, 1947.
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Space or aeronautics?In several points of their vast country, from Washington to Los Angeles, from the Mexican border to the borders of Canada, Americans have observed for a few days strange and mysterious atmospheric bolides. Is this a natural phenomenon, which has deep space as operatin theater? Or is this the latest find of aviation? Our colleagues of the American news services are lost in assumptions, between the "saucer" and the "flying pancake", the nickname of the latest tailless plane of the American navy. However the experts remain silent. It is very difficult to experiment in the atmospheric laboratory without being at least seen. |
