ALSACAT-1975-12-17-SOULTZEREN-1
In the ufology magazine Lumières Dans la Nuit #221-222 for November / December 1982,local ufologist Jacques Journot reported on his investigation into a case à in Kaysersberg in 1982; on thos occation ufologiyt Fernand Lagarde made his comments, and listed some other sightings around this town, including: "Soultzeren: 12/17/75".
| Date: | December 17, 1975 |
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| Time: | ? |
| Duration: | ? |
| First known report date: | 1982 |
| Reporting delay: | 7 years. |
| Department: | Haut-Rhin |
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| City: | Soultzeren |
| Place: | ? |
| Latitude: | 48.063 |
| Longitude: | 7.102 |
| Uncertainty radius: | 1 km. |
| Number of alleged witnesses: | ? |
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| Number of known witnesses: | ? |
| Number of named witnesses: | ? |
| Witness(es) ages: | ? |
| Witness(es) types: | ? |
| Reporting channel: | Ufology magazine LDLN. |
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| Type of location: | ? |
| Visibility conditions: | ? |
| 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: | ? |
| Hynek: | ? |
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| ALSACAT: | Totally insufficient information. |
[Ref. ldl1:] UFOLOGY MAGAZINE "LUMIERES DANS LA NUIT":
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It should be mentioned, however, that the Haut-Rhin department, in addition to BAVIC crossing its south, has been well supplied with observations since 1952. There are 110 of them in our archives, and it is certain that this number represents only a small part of reality.
If, around KAYSERSBERG as the center, we draw a circle with a radius of 15 km (good viewing distance for a phenomenon of the observed type) we find as observations (Michelin map #62 folds 17-18-19) by turning from the left to the right: Ste Marie-aux-Mines: 5/20/52; Bergheim: 1/9/54; Colmar: 5/31/52, 3/20/77; Wintzenheim: 1/18/54; Eguisheim: 10/14/54; Voegtshoffen: 12 snd 11/72; Munster: 10/1878; Lutterbach [sic]: 1951, 53, 68, and 2/22/77; Labaroche: 7/7/67; Soultzeren: 12/17/75; Lapoutroie: 10/14/54. That is a total of 16 observations, 12 of which are concentrated in the south, where, 20 km from Kaysersberg, is the source of helium of Soultzmatt where an observation was made on 10/18/54.
Notes: In the years 1960-1980, ufologist Fernand Lagarde searched for "connections" between UFO observations places and, among other things, "geological faults". Without wishing to specify what such a link would demonstrate, he had often commented on reports of investigations by local investigators published in the ufology magazine Lumières Dans La Nuit, intending to show that such geographic connections did exist.
In the case of Alsace, the task is easy: the whole of the plain of Alsace is a basin of collapse of the old Hercynian mountain range top, of which only the "edges" remain, the Vosges and the Black Forest on the other side of the Rhine River, in Germany. As a result, one should claim that all observations in Alsace are located on a geological fault! Is there anything to be concluded from this as to the nature of the observations? In my opinion, absolutely nothing.
As for "BAVIC", mentioned by Lagarde, it was about a line across France passing by the cities of BAyonne and VIChy, on which the pioneer ufologist Aimé Michel had thought in the years 1950, that on September 24, 1954, there were such a large number of "aligned" sightings on this line that mere chance could not account for it.
Michel, not having the resources to go check each observation report, argued that this alignment signified the reality and the remarkable nature of these observations since hallucinations, lies and misinterpretation could not be propagated on such a straight line.
In reality, the "statistically improbable" character of this alignment has been questioned, but above all, most if not all of the cases he cited for this day are not only explained by trivial causes (mistakes, hoaxes ...), not only were they badly dated and almost never occurred on September 24, 1954, but also, Aimé Michel had not at all been aware of all the cases of that day.
Aimé Michel, at the end of the 1960s, admitted that the "BAVIC line" had no reality; but many others like Fernand Lagarde continued to promote it as a "fact", "extending" the line geographically all around the world and extending it temporally to any observation on this line whatever the date, but without ever verifying that it there would really be a statistical anomaly in this.
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Totally insufficient information.
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| Main author: | Patrick Gross |
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| Contributors: | None |
| Reviewers: | None |
| Editor: | Patrick Gross |
| Version: | Create/changed by: | Date: | Description: |
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| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | February 15, 2022 | Creation, [ldl1]. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | February 15, 2022 | First published. |
