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 Mutzig, on April 22, 2020:

Case number:

ALSACAT-2020-04-22-MUTZIG-1

Summary:

Under a pseudonym, someone reported to the OVNI-France website his/her sighting on April 22, 2020 at 9:00 p.m. in Mutzig in the Bas-Rhin department, lasting approximately 2 minutes:

I was smoking a fag outside like every night watching the sky. Atracted by a flashing blue light which moved very fast in a linear way interspersed with stops. A half turn to reverse it's trajectory.

Data:

Temporal data:

Date:	April 22, 2020
Time:	09:00 p.m.
Duration:	2 minutes.
First known report date:	2020
Reporting delay:	Days, months.

Geographical data:

Department:	Bas-Rhin
City:	Mutzig
Place:	?
Latitude:	48.537
Longitude:	7.455
Uncertainty radius:	2 km.

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:	By the Web to the "OVNI-France.fr" Website.
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, totally insufficient data.

Sources:

[Ref. ofe1:] "OVNI FRANCE" WEBSITE:

Date: 04/22/2020

Department: 67 (Bas-Rhin)

Location: Mutzig

Time: 9:00 p.m.

Number of witnesses: 1 people

Type of sighting: NL: Nocturnal Lights

Approximate duration of the sighting: 2 minutes

What was seen: UFO in the sky

Description of the facts:

I was smoking a fag outside like every night watching the sky. Atracted by a flashing blue light which moved very fast in a linear way interspersed with stops. A half turn to reverse it's trajectory.

Observation 67

Discussion:

Obviously, with a one line report very poor in data I cannot give a well-founded evaluation of this observation.

Evaluation:

Unidentified, totally insufficient data.

Sources references:

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

[ofe1] * OVNI-France Website, France, not dated, 2020, at http://www.ovni-france.fr/index.php?ou=temoignages_vu&id_tem=3550&id=16

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	August 24, 2020	Creation, [ofe1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	August 24, 2020	First published.

This page was last updated on August 24, 2020.