The article below was published in the daily newspaper Les Dernières Nouvelles du Haut-Rhin, German-speaking issue, Colmar, France, on October 20, 1954.
See the case file here.
A 19-year-old young man of Rouffach, Lucien Flesch, lived Monday at 4 a.m. a strange experience near Issenheim. It is half-paralyzed by fear he had shortly after shown at his workplace at the SCHLUMBERGER factory in Mulhouse, and told in a quavering voice how he found himself in the presence of a flying saucer little before the crossing at the entry of Issenheim. It is at a few hundred meters from the road that he noticed a metallic craft 5 to 6 m long and one meter high. No light came from the apparatus. He did not come to the mind of Mr. Flesch to approach more of the mysterious craft because, as he says, one does not know what lies behind. He said that the thing shone like aluminum under the glow of the moon, and it seemed to have the shape of a bell. He is, however, not entirely sure, because saw the craft only aside. As Mr. Flesch claims, an hour and a half later, five people from Bergholtz who were going to work reportedly saw the thing in the same place and attended its takeoff at high speed. Curious to know whether there were still traces at the place where the celestial body appeared to him, Mr. Flesh returned on the spot, without finding anything like that.
