The article below was published in the daily newspaper L'Alsace, France, on September 8, 1978.
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STRASBOURG. - Unidentified flying objects were observed in the sky of Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, by various witnesses whose reports agree.
According to these witnesses, they were luminous balls coming from the North. They flew at low altitude and in total silence, then climbed at a dizzying pace and got lost in the clouds. The three UFOs were shaped like a flat plate surmounted by a hemisphere. The diameter of the craft was estimated at around 25 m.
Observers, who were stationed at different spots in the city, all think that thy cannot have been airplanes.