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 Strasbourg Neuhof, on August 12, 1974:

Case number:

ALSACAT-1974-08-12-NEUHOF-1

Summary:

In the 1970s, Mrs. Geudelot, archivist for the ufology magazine Lumières Dans La Nuit, collected newspaper clippings and information on UFO sightings. Among these is a sighting dated August 12, 1974, at 8:30 PM, in "Neuhof" — actually a district of Strasbourg — with the source said to be the newspaper Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace from August 18, 1974.

A Mr. Lucien Hozinger had reported that on the same evening and at roughly the same time as Mr. and Mrs. Dollé in Gertsheim, he observed luminous balls moving intermittently along the Rhine.

Data:

Temporal data:

Date:	August 12, 1974
Time:	08:30 p.m.
Duration:	?
First known report date:	August 18, 1974
Reporting delay:	6 days.

Geographical data:

Department:	Bas-Rhin
City:	Strasbourg
Place:	Neuhof district.
Latitude:	48.541
Longitude:	7.768
Uncertainty radius:	2 km.

Witnesses data:

Number of alleged witnesses:	1
Number of known witnesses:	1
Number of named witnesses:	1
Witness(es) ages:	Adult od agred.
Witness(es) types:	?

Ufology data:

Reporting channel:	Regional newspaper "Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace".
Type of location:	City.
Visibility conditions:	Day.
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:	DD
ALSACAT:	Insufficient information.

Sources:

[Ref. aldl:] MRS. GUEUDELOT, "LUMIERES DANS LA NUIT" ARCHIVE:

AUGUST 12, 1974.-

NEUHOF. - (67)

Hour: 08:30 p.m.

Mr. Lucien HOZINGER makes it known that in the same evening and at approximately the same time that Mr. and Mrs, Dollé of GERSTHEIM, he observed luminous balls moving intermittently along the Rhine.

"Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace" for AUGUST 18, 1974.

Discussion:

The report is too brief to allow for a well-founded evaluation; its only merit for now is that it serves as a kind of confirmation: people were surprised in Gerstheim, and not far away and seemingly at the same time and independently, someone was also surprised in Neuhof.

Evaluation:

Insufficient information.

Sources references:

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

[lae1] ? Article in the regional newspaper Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace, August 18, 1974.
[ald1] * Record of the archive by Mrs. Gueudelot, of the ufology magazine Lumières Dans La Nuit (LDLN), France, not dated, published circa 2020 by the ufology association SCEAU, France, at https://sceau-archives-ovni.org/fonds/fond_gueudelot/base_guy_jpr_fiches_gueudelot.html

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	July 5, 2025	Creation, [ald1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	July 5, 2025	First published.

This page was last updated on July 5, 2025.