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 Wittelsheim, on August 11, 2012:

Case number:

ALSACAT-2012-08-11-WITTELSHEIM-1

Summary:

According to a UFO website which calls for additional witness on August 14, 2012, someone reported a UFO sighting for August 11, 2012, at 11:35 p.m., from Wittelsheim Graffenwald in the Haut-Rhin.

It was apparently a luminous orange-red object with two very close yellow dots, a halo surrounding it.

Observed for 20 seconds, it was moving roughly at the speed of the International Space Station, it was coming from the Northwest, going towards the Southwest.

It brightened, from the yellow to the white color, before disappearing and reappearing much further and heading west, toward the Thann valley.

Data:

Temporal data:

Date:	August 11, 2012
Time:	11:35 p.m.
Duration:	20 seconds.
First known report date:	August 14, 2012
Reporting delay:	3 days.

Geographical data:

Department:	Haut-Rhin
City:	Wittelsheim
Place:	?
Latitude:	47.782
Longitude:	7.221
Uncertainty radius:	2 km

Witnesses data:

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

Ufology data:

Reporting channel:	By the web to the UFO website ODH-TV.
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:	NL
ALSACAT:	Unidentified, low strangeness, insufficient information.

Sources:

[Ref. odt1:] SITE WEB "ODH TV":

Call for witnesses - August 11, 2012 - Ufo in Alsace

By odhtv in - UFO/AFO news on August 14, 2012 at 01:24 p.m.

We are looking for witnesses who observed on August 11, 2012, orange gleams in Alsace.

Witness statement:

"At 11.35 p.m., Alsace, Haut - Rhin Wittelsheim Graffenwald, observation of a luminous orange-red object with two very close yellow dots, a halo surrounding it, watched for 20seconds going roughly at the speed used by the iss from the north west, towards the south west, it brightened, from yellow to white before disappearing and reappearing much further away heading west towards the Thann valley."

If you observed a similar phenomenon, please contact us at:

odhmobile@hotmail.fr

Discussion:

Graffenwald is a district and a forest about 3 km south-southwest of Wittelsheim.

The report gives neither angular sizes nor angular displacement nor elevation. That is enough to prevent me to guess what it could have been: helicopter or helicopters, plane or planes, alien craft...

Evaluation:

Unidentified, low strangeness, insufficient information.

Sources references:

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

[odt1] * Call for witnesses on the UFO website ODH-TV, France, August 14, 2012, at http://odhtv-archives.kazeo.com/appel-a-temoins-11-aout-2012-ovni-en-alsace-a120953576

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	March 14, 2016	Creation, [odt1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	March 14, 2016	First published.

This page was last updated on March 14, 2016.