The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Liberté de l'Est, Epinal, France, on October 19, 1951.
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Witnesses both from Mulhouse and from Saint-Louis claim to have been able to observe a luminous body moving in the N-S direction. The glowing body followed a trajectory like that of a tracer bullet and then burst into several parts having a greenish glow before extinguishing itself.