ALSACAT-1954-10-16-COLMAR-1
The regional newspaper Le Nouveau Rhin Français, in their Colmar issue for October 17, 1954, reported that on October 16, 1954, at 07:30 p.m. precisely, an object of a brilliant blue-green light moved above Colmar.
It seemed to travel at high altitude and high speed, to go down, and went from West to East, and was "not an ordinary shooting star because its brightness varied from green to blue."
| Date: | October 16, 1954 |
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| Time: | 07:30 p.m. |
| Duration: | ? |
| First known report date: | October 17, 1954 |
| Reporting delay: | Hours. |
| Department: | Haut-Rhin |
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| City: | Colmar |
| Place: | ? |
| Latitude: | 48.079 |
| Longitude: | 7.355 |
| Uncertainty radius: | 5 km |
| Number of alleged witnesses: | ? |
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| Number of known witnesses: | ? |
| Number of named witnesses: | 0 |
| Witness(es) ages: | ? |
| Witness(es) types: | ? |
| Reporting channel: | Regional Press. |
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| Type of location: | From or near city, UFO in the sky. |
| 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: | Not an ordinary shooting star. |
| Hynek: | NL |
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| ALSACAT: | Probably the meteor of October 16, 1954 at 07:30 p.m. |
[Ref. nrf1:] NEWSPAPER "LE NOUVEAU RHIN FRANCAIS":
Last night, at 07:30 p.m. precisely, an object of a brilliant blue-green light moved at high altitude over our city. Its race seemed to go down and went from West to East. Whatever it was, it was not an ordinary shooting star because its brightness varied from green to blue. The projectile was traveling at high altitude and high speed.
A little later, around 09:25 p.m., we were informed from Wintzenheim that a kind of luminous ball was spotted at a height of about 2000 meters, it revolved on its axis and moved at a particularly high rate of speed from East to West in the direction of Hohlandsburg. Four people who were together observed this ball.
[Ref. cvn1:] CHRISTIAN VALENTIN:
In 2004, Christian Valentin wrote a dossier published in the magazine "Les Saisons d'Alsace", which was devoted to the French flap of 1954 as it was lived in Alsace.
Among briefly mentioned cases for this date, he indicates that on October 16, 1954, after 07:30 P.M. and before 09:20 P.M., a "celestial body" was seen from the area of Colmar. The phenomenon was of green and blue color and was coming from the west and going to the east, while apparently losing altitude.
[Ref. cvn2:] CHRISTIAN VALENTIN:
Former journalist Christian Valentin published in 2012 a very interesting book telling the story of UFO sightings, flying saucers sightings, in Alsace, from the beginning to 1980.
In this book, he reports that LE NOUVEAU RHIN FRANCAIS for Sunday, October 17, 1954, in the comar bilingual issue, published this article:
Last night, at 07:30 p.m. precisely, an object of a brilliant blue-green light moved at high altitude over our city. Its race seemed to go down and went from West to East. Whatever it was, it was not an ordinary shooting star because its brightness varied from green to blue. The projectile was traveling at high altitude and high speed.
A little later, around 09:25 p.m., we were informed from Wintzenheim that a kind of luminous ball was spotted at a height of about 2000 meters, it revolved on its axis and moved at a particularly high rate of speed from East to West in the direction of Hohlandsburg. Four people who were together observed this ball.
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The description and details are very meager, we only know that it was fast, high, going down, luminous, blue-green, going from East to West, and that it looked like a shooting star but not n "ordinary" one. All things that reinforce my idea that it was again an observation of the 07:30 p.m. meteor of that day.
Probably the meteor of October 16, 1954 at 07:30 p.m.
* = 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 19, 2005 | First published in the France 1954 catalogue. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | December 27, 2009 | Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. |
| 3.0 | Patrick Gross | April 30, 2014 | Additions [nrf1], [cvn2]. |
| 3.0 | Patrick Gross | April 30, 2014 | First published in the ALSACAT catalogue. |
