The article below was published in the daily newspaper Le Soir, France, on February 7, 1980.
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Three young people from Rouffach (Haut-Rhin) claim to have seen "a flying saucer" on Sunday, shortly before 3 a.m., reports the regional daily "L'Alsace" in its Thursday edition. The three young people say they were driving home from a dance when they saw "a bright orange glow" in the distance.
The craft, they specify, was "approximately thirty meters away" and looked like "an upturned plate, approximately 1.80 m high, which occupied the entire width of the road". The saucer, the young people continue, "approached slowly, and this was the beginning of a panic for us. Then the craft disappeared, without leaving any trace."