The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Alsace, France, on August 7, 1980.
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At around 11 p.m. Tuesday a couple living in Flaxlanden and a friend of theirs observed a slightly flattened object of an incandescent white in the direction of Bruebach. It was first the husband who, getting out of his car, noticed a luminous object which seemed to land behind a maize field. The phenomenon lasted about one minute. Back home, he settled in with his wife and their guest at a window on the 1st floor. From there, the three people saw the object in question for about 2 minutes leave without any noise in the direction of Mulhouse.