ALSACAT:

ALSACAT is my comprehensive catalog of UFO sighting reports in Alsace, the region is the North-East of France, whether they are "explained" or "unexplained".

The ALSACAT catalog is made of case files with a case number, summary, quantitative information (date, location, number of witnesses...), classifications, all sources mentioning the case with their references, a discussion of the case in order to evaluate its causes, and a history of the changes made to the file. A general index and thematic sub-catalogs give access to these Alsatian case files.

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Case of the Haut-Koenigsbourg, in 1976:

Case number:

ALSACAT-1976-00-00-HAUTKOENIGSBOURG-1

Summary:

A listing of the ufology group CNEGU indicates that there was a sighting at an unknown date and an unknown month of 1976 in the Bas-Rhin at the Haut-Koenigsbourg.

In a publication from the 1980s, the CNEGU gave more details:

In the summer of 1973 or 1976, between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. local time, three teenagers arrived at the panoramic terrace of the Haut-Koenigsbourg castle (755 m above sea level), the sky was clear. They observe towards the east between Kintzheim and Orchwiller (67) a luminous white sphere in the sky. This noiselessly performs a geometric figure without jerks or wakes, with two right angles. The phenomenon would have reproduced at the same time, a week later.

The CNEGU indicated as a source a summary of an investigation by Eric Antoine of June 1986 published in LDLN issue 67; which is incorrect as the LDLN magazine issue 67 was published in 1964.

Data:

Temporal data:

Date:	1976
Time:	10:30 p.m.
Duration:	?
First known report date:	June 1986
Reporting delay:	10 years.

Geographical data:

Department:	Bas-Rhin
City:	Orschwiller
Place:	Castle of the Haut-Koenigsbourg
Latitude:	48.249
Longitude:	7.344
Uncertainty radius:	2 km

Witnesses data:

Number of alleged witnesses:	3
Number of known witnesses:	?
Number of named witnesses:	0
Witness(es) ages:	Teenagers.
Witness(es) types:	?

Ufology data:

Reporting channel:	Investigation by Eric Antoine.
Type of location:	Castle terrace on mountain.
Visibility conditions:	Night.
UFO observed:	Yes.
UFO arrival observed:	?
UFO departure observed:	?
Entities:	No.
Photographs:	No.
Sketch(s) by witness(es):	No.
Sketch(es) approved by witness(es):	No.
Witness(es) feelings:	?
Witnesses interpretation:	?

Classifications:

Hynek:	NL
ALSACAT:	Totally insufficient information.

Sources:

[Ref. cnu1:] UFOLOGY GROUP "CNEGU":

Ref. F/00/67/76 00 00 (01) IQ: 0,1,1,1,1 (4) IE: 0,1,0,0,0 (1)

In the summer of 1973 or 1976, between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. local time, three teenagers arrived at the panoramic terrace of the Haut-Koenigsbourg castle (755 m above sea level), the sky was clear. They observe towards the east between Kintzheim and Orchwiller (67) a luminous white sphere in the sky. This noiselessly performs a geometric figure without jerks or wakes, with two right angles. The phenomenon would have reproduced at the same time, a week later.

Source: survey summary by E.Antoine June 86 (LDLN 67).

[Ref. cnu2:] "CNEGU" UFOLOGY GROUP:

134 F/00/67 76 00 00 (01)
Haut Koenigsbourg.

Note: this comes from a catalog with legend explaning the used codes; it means:

Case #134 of the CNEGU listing is: on an unknown day and unknown month of 1976, there was a UFO sighting in the Bas-Rhin at the Haut-Koenigsbourg.

Discussion:

The information available to me for now are totally insufficient.

Evaluation:

Totally insufficient information.

Sources references:

* = Source is available to me.
? = Source I am told about but could not get so far. Help needed.

[cnu1] * "Opération SAROS", by the ufology group CNEGU, France, undated, found in 2015, at http://cnegu.info/pdf/saros-html/Saros-1976s.html
[cnu2] * "Catalogue des observations année 1976, catalogue by the Comité Nord-Est des Groupements Ufologiques (CNEGU), France, page 29, not dated, circa 1987.

File history:

Authoring:

Main author:	Patrick Gross
Contributors:	None
Reviewers:	None
Editor:	Patrick Gross

Changes history:

Version:	Create/changed by:	Date:	Description:
0.1	Patrick Gross	February 28, 2016	Creation, [cnu2].
1.0	Patrick Gross	February 28, 2016	First published.
1.1	Patrick Gross	January 19, 2023	Addition [cnu1]. In the Summary, addition of the information from [cnu1].

This page was last updated on January 19, 2023.