ALSACAT-2012-09-01-MUTZIG-1
On the UFO blog "Area 51", "Jean-Noel" reported on September 2, 2012 to have seen twenty luminous balls lined like a garland for at least 4 minutes "Saturday night" so on September 1, 2009, around 0:15 a.m.
He says he lives in Mutzig in the Bas-Rhin, and that the balls went to the south before disappearing one after another very quickly.
| Date: | September 1, 2012 |
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| Time: | 00:15 a.m |
| Duration: | 4 minutes or more. |
| First known report date: | September 2, 2012 |
| Reporting delay: | 1 day. |
| Department: | Bas-Rhin |
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| City: | Mutzig |
| Place: | ? |
| Latitude: | 48.536 |
| Longitude: | 7.457 |
| Uncertainty radius: | 3 km |
| Number of alleged witnesses: | 1 |
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| Number of known witnesses: | 1 |
| Number of named witnesses: | 0 |
| Witness(es) ages: | ? |
| Witness(es) types: | Male. |
| Reporting channel: | By the web to the "Area 51" blog. |
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| Type of location: | City, UFO in the sky. |
| Visibility conditions: | Night. |
| 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: | ? |
| Hynek: | NL |
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| ALSACAT: | Probable Chinese lanterns |
[Ref. odt1:] "AREA51" BLOG:
jean-noel says :
08/02/2012 at 11:30
good evening i also seen about twenty luminous balls alinned like on a garland during at leas 4 minute saturday evening at about 00h15 i live in mutzig in the 67 they took the dirrection of the south bedore dissapearing the one after the other very fast
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This is a very obvious description of a launch of Chinese lanterns. And it occurs on a Saturday evening just after midnight.
Since 2005, Chinese lanterns constitute the bulk of the "testimonies" of UFOs found on websites devoted to the subject of UFOs and essentially publishing such "web report"; generally the only treatment is the publication, without any information on a possible cause, without any investigation or comment.
In Alsace, such releases are especially popular now since fireworks and firecrackers, long tolerated, are now prohibited for use unless special exemptions; Alsatians therefore largely adopted the lanterns.
As these lanterns are usually released at private or public parties, they are most often seen on Saturday nights, often at wedding dates or official festivities such as the National Day or New Year's Eve, usually between 10 p.m. and midnight. They are then usually released in clusters. But sometimes the purchaser performs a "test flight" a few days before, sometimes with a single lantern.
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Above: Chinese lanterns interpreted as UFO by some people, over Mulhouse on October 10, 2013. Image published in the newspaper "Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace".
Probable Chinese lanterns.
* = 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 | March 17, 2018 | Creation, [odt1]. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | March 17, 2018 | First published. |
