ALSACAT-1975-03-21-RIEDISHEIM-1
The regional newspaper L'Alsace, in their Mulhouse edition of March 28, 1975, reported that one of their female readers, living in Riedisheim, told them of a strange display she witnessed on Friday, March 21, 1975.
Around 9:30 p.m., she had seen in the direction of Zimmersheim, high in the sky, a craft of circular shape from which emanated a sharp orange color, very bright.
Puzzled, she called her 17-year-old daughter. The machine gradually lost its color. Its spherical shape with portholes appeared more clearly, though obscure in the night sky.
Then, through the portholes, sprang a strong white glow as if it were produced by searchlights. The witness house was illuminated by this glow. After a few moments the phenomenon has stopped. The witness thought other people must have seen this too.
| Date: | March 21, 1975 |
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| Time: | 09:30 p.m. |
| Duration: | ? |
| First known report date: | March 28, 1975 |
| Reporting delay: | 4 days. |
| Department: | Haut-Rhin |
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| City: | Riedisheim |
| Place: | From witness house, UFO in the sky. |
| Latitude: | 47.744 |
| Longitude: | 7.361 |
| Uncertainty radius: | 2 km |
| Number of alleged witnesses: | 2 |
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| Number of known witnesses: | 1 |
| Number of named witnesses: | 0 |
| Witness(es) ages: | ? |
| Witness(es) types: | A female resident and her daughter. |
| Reporting channel: | The regional Press. |
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| Type of location: | From witness house, UFO in the sky. |
| Visibility conditions: | Night |
| UFO observed: | Yes |
| UFO arrival observed: | ? |
| UFO departure observed: | Yes |
| Entities: | No |
| Photographs: | No. |
| Sketch(s) by witness(es): | No. |
| Sketch(es) approved by witness(es): | No. |
| Witness(es) feelings: | Puzzled. |
| Witnesses interpretation: | ? |
| Hynek: | NL |
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| ALSACAT: | Unidentified. |
[Ref. lae1:] NEWSPAPER "L'ALSACE":
One of our readers, living in Riedisheim shared with us the strange spectacle she had witnessed on Friday, March 21.
Indeed, around 091:30 p.m., she saw towards Zimmersheim, high in the sky, a circular machine that gave off a bright orange color, very luminous. Intrigued, our reader called her 17-year-old daughter. The machine gradually lost its color. Its spherical pierced with portholes appeared more clearly, although obscure in the night sky. Then, still says our reader, by its portholes, a strong white glow gushed out as if it were produced by projectors. The house of our correspondent, who thinks that she was not the only witness, was lit by the glow... After a few moments the phenomena ceased.
[Ref. ldl1:] UFOLOGY MAGAZINE "LUMIERES DANS LA NUIT":
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FRIDAY. MARCH 21, 1975: RIEDISHEIM (Haut-Rhin)
Around 9:30 p.m., a resident of Riedisheim saw high in the sky in the direction of Zimmersheim, a circular craft, producing an orange-colored very bright light. The craft gradually lost its color; it was spherical in shape, pierced with portholes from which suddenly sprang a strong white light, which lit the witness's house; a few moments later the phenomenon disappeared ("L'Alsace", for 2/18/75).
[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 this case for Friday, March 21, 1975, in Riedisheim, was reported in L'Alsace for Friday, March 28, 1975, Mulhouse issue:
One of our readers, living in Riedisheim shared with us the strange spectacle she had witnessed on Friday, March 21.
Indeed, around 091:30 p.m., she saw towards Zimmersheim, high in the sky, a circular machine that gave off a bright orange color, very luminous. Intrigued, our reader called her 17-year-old daughter. The machine gradually lost its color. Its spherical pierced with portholes appeared more clearly, although obscure in the night sky. Then, still says our reader, by its portholes, a strong white glow gushed out as if it were produced by projectors. The house of our correspondent, who thinks that she was not the only witness, was lit by the glow... After a few moments the phenomena ceased.
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It is not at all my habit to "advertise" a book or anything, and I have no interested relationship with the author, but I wanted to say a word on the book by Christian Valentin, "Mythes et Réalités des Phénomènes Aériens Non Identifiés" (i.e. "Myths and Realities of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" (cover on the left) , ref. [cv2]; which, as its subtitle indicates, is about Alsatian UFO sighting reports and the saucer lore in Alsace.
I think Alsatian ufologists and generally people interested in the UFO question, or in the history of Alsace, my region, would probably like this book.
The 144 pages book is sober but well presented, unbiased, richly documented and illustrated. It is the first work in print specifically about UFO sightings in Alsace. (There was another one a few years ago, but it was partly made by copying - pasting without mention of the sources, portions of my website, especially the Alsatians cases I almost exhaustively documented in my catalog of UFO sightings in France in 1954, and copies from another websites; the trivial explanations I proposed or gave there being almost always stripped off!)
The author does not want to prove or disprove the possibility of extraterrestrial visitors or some other so-called "extraordinary" explanation, he rather offers a chronologically ordered review of Alsatian UFO reports, starting from the origin and stopping in 1980, based on known sources ufology, on the articles of the regional Press, and cases less known or even unreleased so far that he collected directly with the witnesses. His own comments are printed in a different color, references to the sources are always given. A very nice work in my opinion!
The author currently has a blog where he shows what libraries in Alsace have the book available, see: christian.valentin.overblog.com
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Zimmersheim is generally south-east of Riedisheim, at about 3 km. The exact location of the witness is not given, and Riedisheim seen from Zimmersheim occupies nearly 4 km in width, thus no precise direction can be given.
With the light of the UFO illuminating the witnesses' house, we can think that the UFO could not have been very far. Unfortunately, while this case is certainly strange, much information is missing, such as a duration of observation, an angular size, the mention of noise or absence thereof. And it seems that this observation was never investigated nor checked into.
Unidentified.
* = 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 | January 25, 2018 | Creation, [lae1], [cvn2]. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | January 25, 2018 | First published. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | May 20, 2021 | Addition [ldl1]. |
