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 Strasbourg, on May 23, 1974:

Case number:

ALSACAT-1974-05-23-STRASBOURG-1

Summary:

In the archive of the French ufology magazine Lumières Dans La Nuit, there is a case dated May 23, 1974, in Strasbourg:

At 5:30 p.m., Mr. Richard C. saw from a window on the 13th floor of a building in the Neudorf district, to the east, a "fairly large" dot of light of "light white" color, doing some fairly short ups and downs for a few seconds, then rising much faster, sideways, north, and disappearing.

Data:

Temporal data:

Date:	May 23, 1974
Time:	05:30 p.m.
Duration:	?
First known report date:	In the 1970's.
Reporting delay:	Day, years.

Geographical data:

Department:	Haut-Rhin
City:	Strasbourg
Place:	From window of 13th floor of building in the Neudorf district.
Latitude:	48.565
Longitude:	7.763
Uncertainty radius:	1 km.

Witnesses data:

Number of alleged witnesses:	1
Number of known witnesses:	1
Number of named witnesses:	0
Witness(es) ages:	?
Witness(es) types:	Male.

Ufology data:

Reporting channel:	Ufology archive LDLN.
Type of location:	Building 13th floor.
Visibility conditions:	Day.
UFO observed:	Yes.
UFO arrival observed:	?
UFO departure observed:	Yes.
Entities:	No.
Photographs:	No.
Sketch(s) by witness(es):	No.
Sketch(es) approved by witness(es):	No.
Witness(es) feelings:	?
Witnesses interpretation:	?

Classifications:

Hynek:	DD
ALSACAT:	Insufficient information, low strangeness.

Sources:

MAY 23, 1974.-

STRASBOURG. - (67)

Hour: at 05:30 p.m.

Mr. Richard C. sees from STRASBOURG-NEUDORF through a window on the 13th floor of a building, towards the EAST (Germany) a rather large bright dot of light white color, making a few fairly short ascents and descents for a few seconds, then rise much more quickly, obliquely towards the NORTH and disappear.

(Reported by M. Mary C.)

Discussion:

The information is rather poor, and there has been no investigation as far as I know.

The strangeness of the report is low, it could have been a helicopter for example.

Evaluation:

Insufficient information, low strangeness.

Sources references:

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

[ald1] * Record of the archive by Mrs. Gueudelot, of the ufology magazine Lumières Dans La Nuit (LDLN), France, not dated, published circa 2020 by the ufology association SCEAU, France, at https://sceau-archives-ovni.org/fonds/fond_gueudelot/base_guy_jpr_fiches_gueudelot.html

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	September 12, 2023	Creation, [ald1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	September 12, 2023	First published.

This page was last updated on September 12, 2023.