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 Leymen, on July 3, 2005:

Case number:

ALSACAT-2005-07-03-LEYMEN-1

Summary:

The ufology magazine Lumières Dans La Nuit, in issue 378 of August 2005, showed on its cover this image, indicating that it was taken from the castle of Landskron in Leymen in the Haut-Rhin, on July 3, 2005, at 03:20 p.m., by a photographer who had not noticed anything on the moment:

Data:

Temporal data:

Date:	July 3, 2005
Time:	03:20 p.m.
Duration:	N/A
First known report date:	August 2005
Reporting delay:	Hours, weeks.

Geographical data:

Department:	Haut-Rhin
City:	Leymen
Place:	From the Landskron castle.
Latitude:	47.488
Longitude:	7.490
Uncertainty radius:	50 m

Witnesses data:

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

Ufology data:

Reporting channel:	Ufology magazine Lumières Dans La Nuit.
Type of location:	Outside from a castle.
Visibility conditions:	Day.
UFO observed:	No
UFO arrival observed:	No
UFO departure observed:	No
Entities:	No
Photographs:	Yes.
Sketch(s) by witness(es):	No.
Sketch(es) approved by witness(es):	No.
Witness(es) feelings:	?
Witnesses interpretation:	?

Classifications:

Hynek:	BLURFO
ALSACAT:	Probable bird.

Sources:

[Ref. ldl1:] "LUMIERES DANS LA NUIT":

photo taken from the top of the castle of Landskron, in Leymen (Haut-Rhin)
on sunday, July 3, 2005, at 03:20 p.m. At the time, the photographer notices nothing.

[Ref. spa1:] UFOLOGY GROUP "SPICA":

City	Date and hour of observation	General shape Identification	General color Hypothesis	Conclusion
LEYMEN	Sunday 3 July 2005 at 03:20 p.m.	information not communicated Unidentified	grey or metallic None	Unsolved -lack of info

Discussion:

I do not have any more detailed information or best picture, at the moment, but come on, just a little zooming on the image is enough to see that this UFO that was not seen was probably just a bird:

Evaluation:

Probable bird.

Sources references:

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

[ldl1] * Cover of the ufology magazine Lumières Dans La Nuit, (LDLN), France, #378, August 2005.
[spa1] * "DEPARTEMENT 68 - HAUT-RHIN", listing of UFO sighting reports by the Alsatian ufology group SPICA, Alsace, France, not dated, found in May 2015, at http://www.spica.org/Page_Listing_68.htm

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 24, 2015	Creation, [ldl1], [spa1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	May 24, 2015	First published.

This page was last updated on May 24, 2015.