The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Alsace, Mulhouse, France, on April 24, 1970.
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Still no explanation for the "flying saucer" of Monday night, but one more witness. It is a resident of Mulhouse who, after work, likes to walk at the edge of our locality, towards the road to Cernay. He, however, brings a precision. Having observed the phenomenon, he places it much closer than hitherto thought: "if it had happened in Berrwiller, I would not have seen the luminous ball at ground level. The trees would have hidden my sight. As I saw it from the ground, it must have taken off in a much closer corner of Wittelsheim, for example on the meadows of the Thur."
It remains to know what happened in reality on the meadows of the Thur last Monday around 9 p.m..