ALSACAT-1993-03-08-MULHOUSE-1
The ufology magazine Phenomena #15 of May - June 1993 reported that according to the newspaper L'Alsace for March 9, 1993, Monday March 8 in the evening, the police officers on duty at the Mulhouse central police station were alerted about a luminous phenomenon. A patrol sent to check this out was able to observe the presence of a large orange-colored luminous dot, visible in the sky at Lutterbach. The light lasted for about a quarter of an hour. The airport did not detect anything on the radar.
The ufology magazine Lumières Dans La Nuit reportedly told in their June 1993 issue, that on March 8, 1993, at 9 p.m. in Lutterbach, policemen were called by witnesses, and found the presence of a strange object over the village.
It seemed to be at 200 or 300 meters high and produced a bright yellow light.
It remained motionless for 10 minutes then went to the south-west.
One source says the civilian radar at the airport detected nothing, that the color was orange, that it had overed for about 15 minutes.
| Date: | March 8, 1993 |
|---|---|
| Time: | ~09:00 p.m. |
| Duration: | 10 minutes or more. |
| First known report date: | June 1993 |
| Reporting delay: | Minutes, 4 months. |
| Department: | Haut-Rhin |
|---|---|
| City: | Lutterbach |
| Place: | ? |
| Latitude: | 47.758 |
| Longitude: | 7.280 |
| Uncertainty radius: | 4 km |
| Number of alleged witnesses: | Several. |
|---|---|
| Number of known witnesses: | 0 |
| Number of named witnesses: | 0 |
| Witness(es) ages: | Adults. |
| Witness(es) types: | Policemen. |
| Reporting channel: | Ufology magazine "Lumières Dans La Nuit". |
|---|---|
| Type of location: | From city, UFO in the sky. |
| Visibility conditions: | Evening. |
| 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: | ? |
| Witnesses interpretation: | ? |
| Hynek: | NL |
|---|---|
| ALSACAT: | Unidentified, but meager information. |
[Ref. pha1:] UFOLOGY MAGAZINE "PHENOMENA":
L'Alsace - 09/03/1993. On the evening of Monday March 8, the police officers on duty at the Mulhouse central police station were alerted about a luminous phenomenon. A patrol sent for the occasion was able to observe the presence of a large orange-colored luminous dot, visible in the sky at the level of Lutterbach. The light lasted for about a quarter of an hour. The airport did not detect anything on the radar.
[Ref. uwb1:] "UFOWEB" WEBSITE:
| CITIES | DEPT | LATITUDES | LONGITUDES | YEARS | |||
| Mulhouse | 68 | 47.750 | 7.333 | 1993 | |||
[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN - "BASE OVNI FRANCE":
General features
| Num Base: | 1901 |
| Department: | Haut Rhin (68) |
| Place of observation: | Lutterbach |
| Latitude: | 47.766 |
| Longitude: | +7.283 |
| Date of observation: | 08 mars 1993 |
| Hour: | 21:00 hours |
| Duration (HH:MM:SS): | 00:10:00 |
| Weather: | No weather indication |
| Type of observation: | Visual: Distant |
| Nbr of witness(es): | undetermined number |
| Official investigation: | Yes |
Features of the object
| Nbr of object: | 1 |
| Type of object: | Non-defined |
| Size: | Not specified |
| Color: | Jaune |
| Luminosity: | Brilliant |
| Visual characteristics: | No indication |
| Speed: | not defined |
| Movement/Displacement: | By bumps (motionless then d |
| Object on the ground: | No |
| Instantaneous disappearance: | No |
Observation
Policemen called by witnesses observed the presence of a strange object over the village. It seemed to be at 200 or 300 m high and spread [sic] a bright yellow light. It stood still for 10 minutes then went south-west.
Sources
Lumières dans la Nuit issue 318
[Ref. isu1:] "ISUNDGAU" BLOG:
That blog presents several cases in Alsace they fished on the web, including this one:
March 8, 1993 in Mulhouse-Lutterbach
Policemen on duty of the Mulhouse police station were alerted about a luminous phenomenon. A patrol delegated for the occurrence saw the presence of a large orange-colored spot, visible in the sky at the height of LUTTERBACH. The light persisted for about a quarter of an hour. The airport not detected nothing on the radar.
There is no source reference for this case, cited among other cases. There is simply, at the end of the article, a series of links to several ufology websites and web pages, including a link to the old URL of the home page of my own website.
[Ref. spa1:] "SPICA" UFOLOGY ASSOCIATION:
| City | Date and hour of observation | General shape Identification |
General color Hypothesis |
Conclusion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LUTTERBACH | Monday 8 March 1993 at 09:00 p.m. | information not communicated Unidentified |
yellow None |
Unsolved -lack of info |
|
What is there to ay about this? The sources I currently have are just extremely meager, providing no details at all. And, oddly given the imvolvement of policemen, there is no trace of the case in the GEIPAN archive as curretly published on their website...
Unidentified, but meager information.
* = Source is available to me.
? = Source I am told about but could not get so far. Help needed.
| Main author: | Patrick Gross |
|---|---|
| Contributors: | None |
| Reviewers: | None |
| Editor: | Patrick Gross |
| Version: | Create/changed by: | Date: | Description: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | July 28, 2015 | Creation, [uwb1], [lcn1], [isu1], [spa1]. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | July 28, 2015 | First published. |
| 1.1 | Patrick Gross | June 15, 2021 | Addition [pha1]. In the Summary, addition of the information from [pha1]. |
