ALSACAT-1986-09-23-BISCHWILLER-1
The ufology bulletin La Ligne Bleue Survolée?, of the Cercle Vosgien Lumières Dans La Nuit, in their issue 18, in 1987, noted in a catalog of cases from the East of France, without indicating a source, that in Bischwiller, in the Bas-Rhin, around 07:30 a.m. on September 23, 1986, a dozen high school students and two independent adults testified to the passage from the North-North-East to the South-South-West of a luminous phenomenon.
The bulletin noted that this sighting is part of the large-scale observed phenomenon reported in the regional and national press, and that the likely explanation is an "atmospheric (re)entry".
| Date: | September 23, 1986 |
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| Time: | 07.30 a.m. |
| Duration: | ? |
| First known report date: | 1987 |
| Reporting delay: | Days, 1 year. |
| Department: | Bas-Rhin |
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| City: | Bischwiller |
| Place: | ? |
| Latitude: | 48.766 |
| Longitude: | 7.858 |
| Uncertainty radius: | 6 km. |
| Number of alleged witnesses: | 12 |
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| Number of known witnesses: | ? |
| Number of named witnesses: | 0 |
| Witness(es) ages: | High school students and 2 adults. |
| Witness(es) types: | High school students and 2 adults. |
| Reporting channel: | Ufology bulletin "La Ligne Bleue Survolée?" |
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| Type of location: | ? |
| Visibility conditions: | Day. |
| 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: | ? |
| Hynek: | NL |
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| ALSACAT: | ? |
[Ref. lbs1:] UFOLOGY BULLETIN "LA LIGNE BLEUE SURVOLEE?":
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Ref: F/96/67860923 (01)
BISCHWILLER (67) - around 7:30 a.m. LT - Tuesday 23 September 86 -
A dozen high school students and two independent adults testify to the passage from NNE to SSW of a luminous phenomenon.
This observation is part of the phenomenon observed on a large scale (see catalog, national and regional press).
Classification: EXPLANATION probable by atmospheric (re)entry.
It is specified that this case falls within those of "the theoretical territorial coverage of the "CNEGU" [committee of Northeastern France ufology groups] but located in departments not yet covered in practice more than occasionally."
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"(r)atmospheric entry", the explanation given in [lbs1], which we sometimes see in other catalogs by the way, leaves me perplexed.
Either this was a "re-entry" or "re-entry" into the atmosphere, i.e. an object that had left it and came back in, in simpler terms, a debris or debris from a spacecraft or a satellite, or we have an "entry" into the atnosphere, for example a meteor. [lbs1] therefore leaves me with a doubt, while it seems that the thing had a national echo, according to their evocation, and that we therefore certainly it was known whether it was a meteor or space junk.
With a brief search, I found that it was indeed a meteor, that passed over France in particular that day around 05:32 UTC, also seen in the Netherlands, Germany and up to Czechoslovakia, see:
"Le brillant météore du 23 septembre 1986: 2ème partie" by Sauval, J., in the Astronomy journal Ciel et Terre, Volume 103, pp 149-152, 1987.
Also note that [lbs1], which does not specify any source, does not tell us whether these witnesses said they saw a "UFO" or a meteor.
Probable meteor.
* = Source is available to me.
? = Source I am told about but could not get so far. Help needed.
| Main author: | Patrick Gross |
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| Contributors: | None |
| Reviewers: | None |
| Editor: | Patrick Gross |
| Version: | Create/changed by: | Date: | Description: |
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| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | August 4, 2022 | Creation, [lbs1]. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | August 4, 2022 | First published. |
