ALSACAT-2012-09-06-STRASBOURG-1
In March 2014, I found on a UFO website a testimony from a 18-year-old, who says he regularly sees UFOs in Strasbourg "near an airport."
He explains that he can recognize the stars, planes and satellite, so what he observed are UFOs in his opinion.
Sometimes he watches the sky, sees the stars, when suddenly he can see five or six stars move along a rather haphazard nonlinear direction, and then move all in the same direction with a weaker brightness as they move.
He can see this regularly, and on the evening of September 6, 2014, he saw a light among the stars that had a variable luminous intensity and moved suddenly quite fast. That same evening, he said, he could see five "different manifestations, quite spectacular."
Prior to publishing this testimony, he had spoken to his 15-year-old brother who had not believed until he had alerted him during an observation.
| Date: | September 6, 2012 |
|---|---|
| Time: | 09:00 p.m. |
| Duration: | 3 hours, several sightings. |
| First known report date: | March 1, 2014, or earlier. |
| Reporting delay: | Day, months? |
| Department: | Bas-Rhin |
|---|---|
| City: | Strasbourg |
| Place: | Near Entzheim airport? |
| Latitude: | 48.566 |
| Longitude: | 7.724 |
| Uncertainty radius: | 10 km |
| Number of alleged witnesses: | 2 |
|---|---|
| Number of known witnesses: | 1 |
| Number of named witnesses: | 0 |
| Witness(es) ages: | ? |
| Witness(es) types: | With a brother. |
| Reporting channel: | On the web to the UFO website "OVNI-France.fr". |
|---|---|
| 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: | Puzzled. |
| Witnesses interpretation: | Not planes, not satellites, not stars. |
| Hynek: | NL |
|---|---|
| ALSACAT: | Probable Chinese lanterns, and satellite flash. |
[Ref. ofe1:] "OVNI-FRANCE.FR" WEBSITE:
Date: 09/06/2012
Department: 67 (Bas-Rhin)
Localization: Strasbourg
Time: 21:30
Numbers [sic] of witnesses: 2 people
Type of observation: NL: Nocturnal Lights
Approxima [sic] duration of the observation: 0 minutes
What was seen: Several ufos observations between 09:00 p.m. and 00:00
Description of the facts:
Hello to you I'm 18 and my brother is 16 , i'm used to watching stars, and i observed UFOs, I live near an airport , I can recognize planes when i see them or satellites, sometimes I look at the sky, and I see the stars when suddenly I see 5 or 6 star move along a rather haphazard nonlinear direction, and all going in the same direction with a brightness increasingly weaker as they move, i can see them regularly, or like this evening, a light from the star that has a light intensity that varies and moves suddenly quite fast, of course before mentioning it on this web site I spoke with my brother who did not believe me until I called at the right time of an observation, tonight I've seen 5 different manifestation, pretty spectacular. You really have to see it to believe it!:)
lemairenoham
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Unfortunately, being able to recognize planes, stars and satellites from UFOs is not enough to demonstrate that one saw real UFOs, as there are many other things in the sky that one can fail to recognize for what they are.
The report is very vague; there is no quantitative data, which leaves room for doubt about what was seen.
However, it seems quite possible that the young man had seen Chinese lanterns for at least part of his observations, the part in which he describes lights that weaken when they move, what can be understood as less visible as they go away.
There may also be in there a reflection of the sun on a satellite; which ufologists often called an "Iridium flash", from the the name of satellites network that originally caused such sightings. But without precise hour, direction and elevation, we will probably never know for sure.
Probable Chinese lanterns, and satellite flash.
* = 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 |
| Editeur: | Patrick Gross |
| Version: | Create/changed by: | Date: | Description: |
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| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | April 2, 2014 | Creation, [ofe1]. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | April 2, 2014 | First published. |
