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 Mulhouse, on November 15, 1967:

Case number:

ALSACAT-1967-11-15-MULHOUSE-1

Summary:

In the ufology bulletin Les Extraterrestres, of the ufology group GEOS, #11 of March - April 1971, there is a list of observations of the year 1967; it is noted that on November 15 of that year, at 6:30 p.m. in Mulhouse, something elongated was seen.

But in the Press of the time, an AFP dispatch gave a more terrertial report:

Mulhouse (A.F.P.). -- Many people said that they had observed yesterday around 6:30 p.m. in the Haut-Rhin sky, a luminous object in the shape of a round long shape and ending in a comet's tail.

The object that was heading east to west, it then disintegrated into three small orange balls. It is assumed that this is the disintegration of a satellite or a rocket stage.

Data:

Temporal data:

Date:	November 15, 1967
Time:	06:30 p.m.
Duration:	?
First known report date:	November 16, 1967
Reporting delay:	Hours.

Geographical data:

Department:	Haut-Rhin
City:	Mulhouse
Place:	?
Latitude:	47.750
Longitude:	7.334
Uncertainty radius:	5 km

Witnesses data:

Number of alleged witnesses:	?
Number of known witnesses:	?
Number of named witnesses:	?
Witness(es) ages:	?
Witness(es) types:	?

Ufology data:

Reporting channel:	Agence France Presse.
Type of location:	?
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:	?
ALSACAT:	Probable meteor or space junk.

Sources:

[Ref. lie1:] JOURNAL "LA LIBERTE DE L'EST":

Unidentified object in the Haut-Rhin sky

Mulhouse (A.F.P.). -- Many people said that they had observed yesterday around 6:30 p.m. in the Haut-Rhin sky, a luminous object in the shape of a round long shape and ending in a comet's tail.

The object that was heading east to west, it then disintegrated into three small orange balls. It is assumed that this is the disintegration of a satellite or a rocket stage.

[Ref. exs1:] UFOLOGY BULLETIN "LES EXTRATERRESTRES":

In a list of the observations for 1967, this bulletin noted:

11/15

06:30 p.m.

Mulhouse

France

Elongated

Discussion:

It could have been a meteor just as well as a rocket or satellite disintegration.

Evaluation:

Insufficient information, possible meteor.

Sources references:

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

[lie1] * "Objet non identifié dans le ciel Haut-Rhinois", article in the regional newspaper La Liberté de l'Est, Epinal, France, November 16, 1967.
[exs1] * Ufology bulletin Les Extraterrestres, GEOS, France, Series 1, #11, page 14, March / April 1971.

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	May 28, 2021	Creation, [lie1, [exs1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	May 28, 2021	First published.

This page was last updated on May 28, 2021.