The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Alsace, Mulhouse, France, on September 17, 1976.
A resident of ... street in Mulhouse, Mr. M. R. thinks he observed twice, Friday evening and on last September 25, in the sky of Mulhouse an "Unidentified flying object" in other words a "flying saucer".
Mr. R. saw Friday at about 11:15 p.m. what he had already seen: a luminous dot the size of the Northern star but of an extremely bright orange color, moving fast at high altitude. According to our reader, it could not at all have been a plane, not even a weather balloon lit by the sun...