ALSACAT-2013-01-21-MULHOUSEHOCHSTATT-1
In the night of June 21, 2013, like every year, Chinese lanterns were launched over the Mulhouse area in celebration of the Chinese New Year, of course.
Some people saw them and at least one video was made, and it was called UFO by some people asking about it on the Internet. At least one person responded that they were Chinese lanterns for the Chinese New Year.
| Date: | January 21, 2013 |
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| Time: | ~02:00 a.m. |
| Duration: | ? |
| First known report date: | January 22, 2013 |
| Reporting delay: | Hours, 1 day. |
| Department: | Haut-Rhin |
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| City: | Mulhouse, Hochstatt |
| Place: | Pathway, at a window, various. |
| Latitude: | 47.703 |
| Longitude: | -7.355 |
| Uncertainty radius: | 3 km |
| Number of alleged witnesses: | Several |
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| Number of known witnesses: | 2 |
| Number of named witnesses: | 0 |
| Witness(es) ages: | ? |
| Witness(es) types: | ? |
| Reporting channel: | Video published on Youtube, post on web forum. |
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| Type of location: | Residential area, suburb. |
| Visibility conditions: | Night |
| UFO observed: | Yes |
| UFO arrival observed: | ? |
| UFO departure observed: | ? |
| Entities: | No |
| Photographs: | Yes. |
| Sketch(s) by witness(es): | No. |
| Sketch(es) approved by witness(es): | No. |
| Witness(es) feelings: | Puzzled. |
| Witnesses interpretation: | UFOs |
| Hynek: | LN |
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| ALSACAT: | Chinese lanterns. |
[Ref. tck1:] "TOTALCHOK", ON YOUTUBE:
Paranormal Haut-Rhinˇ5 videos
Published Jan. 22, 2013
Night on the edge of the way my buddies and i see what we would have never imagine [sic]
[Ref. tckZ:] ANONYMOUS, ON THE "KOREUS" WEB FORUM:
Registrered: 03/20/2011 14:45
Post(s): 74
On January 21, 2013 in the Mulhouse area, some people saw a UFO in the sky that resembled a dozen of red flashing lights. Last evening I was at a party with buddies and at about 2 a.m. the DJ put on music that sucked, then he told us to come at the window, then we saw exactly the same thing but much larger, about fifteen red lights that moved sideways and flashed.
Does someone have an idea about what that might have been ^^ ?
Re: UFO in Alsace (Mulhouse/Hochstatt) in January/February
Registered: 15/06/2010 11:28
Post(s): 145
Those were chinese lanterns for the chinese new year...
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Again Chinese lanterns called UFOs by people - young people? - who do not know just yet about them.
The particularity of this case is that, indeed, January 21 is the Chinese New Year, and the residents of the Mulhouse area of Chinese or Asian origin merrily use them for the celebration.
In general, because powerful or noisy firecrackers are now banned in Alsace, more and more people replace then with Chinese lanterns, inexpensive, easy to obtain, for example at www.skylantern.fr, and spectacular.
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 |
| Editeur: | Patrick Gross |
| Version: | Create/changed by: | Date: | Description: |
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| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | March 23, 2014 | Creation, [tck1], [tckZ]. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | March 23, 2014 | First published. |
