Het Vaderland (Pays Bas), édition du matin, 11 août 1935 Theo Paijmans: Magonia Exchange, 29 avril 2007
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Mr. E. van Ameyden van Duyn writes to us from Paris:
I have just been reading in het Vaderland dated August 7 that Tuesday night at various places a fireball was seen at the heavens just after nine o'clock. Around that time I happened to be at Fontainebleau, where we had gone to to escape the smothering heat of Paris, in order to stroll through the beautiful forrest and with the mind's eye see the shadow of Napoleon wandering around, on horseback next to Madame Sans Gêne, the Duchess of Danzig!
We waited on the square in front of the Palace for the bus, that would take us back to Paris and which came much too late. Suddenly we saw, coming from behind the Palace a beautiful globe appearing, with a bright green light in the shape of a big rocket. It moved over the great square towards us, to disappear over the houses behind us, discharging small pieces of light at the back, exactly as described in Het Vaderland.
At first we thought that it was a joke by the soldiers in the barracks behind the Palace, that it had been one of the signal rockets for the reconnaissance of aeroplanes. Just previously very high in the sky a waterplane had flown past. A gentleman approached us and asked, what that had been and he shook his head energetically, when I said: "on dirait du feu artifice" ("one would say artificial fire"). I looked in the French newspapers if I could find something about the apparition, but in vain and from Het Vaderland I know now what I have seen. It was an extraordinary beautiful display, that I will not forget lightly!
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