ALSACAT-1996-08-01-LANDSER-1
A ufological source noted that the newspaper L'Alsace for August 3, 1996, had published an article titled "the night of the UFOs", reporting that "during the night from Thursday to Friday", different brigades of gendarmerie had recorded four calls which signaled to them "the passage of UFOs" in the sky.
It reportedly started at 10:03 p.m. in the Landser area, where a witness said he saw "a ball with a trail moving in the southeast/northwest direction, a kind of shooting star or rocket of fireworks, but which passed horizontally". This witness had alerted the COG in Colmar and the Gendarmerie brigade at Basel-Mulhouse airport, and he had been heard on the morning of August 2, 1996 by the Sierentz gendarmes, who had "alerted the prefectural authorities."
It is also said that the times of the calls and the directions of travel reported revealed inconsistencies, but that "this kind of event happens once or twice a year", according to a gendarme.
| Date: | August 1, 1996 |
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| Time: | 10:03 p.m. |
| Duration: | ? |
| First known report date: | August 1, 1996 |
| Reporting delay: | Minutes, hour. |
| Department: | Haut-Rhin |
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| City: | Landser |
| Place: | ? |
| Latitude: | 47.683 |
| Longitude: | 7.388 |
| Uncertainty radius: | 3 km. |
| Number of alleged witnesses: | 1 |
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| Number of known witnesses: | 1 |
| Number of named witnesses: | 0 |
| Witness(es) ages: | ? |
| Witness(es) types: | ? |
| Reporting channel: | To the airport and to the Gemdarmes. |
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| Type of location: | ? |
| 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: | ? |
| Hynek: | NL |
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| ALSACAT: | Space junk reentry. |
[Ref. uwb1:] "UFOWEB" WEBSITE:
| CITIES | DEPT | LATITUDES | LONGITUDES | YEARS | |||
| Sierentz | 68 | 47.667 | 7.467 | 1996 | |||
[Ref. fme1:] FRANK MARIE, "BANQUE OVNI":
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1996,08,01 - 22:03 - 068 - Landser (Habsheim) 47°40 -7°23
art: - boule à traînée (= fusée feu d'artifice), vol horiz. SE/NO, sd - **/30972
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L'Alsace
sa 03 août 1996
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LA NUIT DES OVNIS
Dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi, différentes brigades de gendarmerie ont enregistré quatre appels leur signalant "le passage d'ovnis" dans le ciel.
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L'étrange ballet a débuté à 22h 03 dans le secteur de LANDSER. Un témoin dit avoir vu "une boule avec une traînée se déplaçant dans la direction sud-est/nord-ouest, un genre d'étoile filante ou de fusée de feu d'artifice, mais qui passait à l'horizontale". Il alerte le COG à Colmar et la brigade de l'aéroport de Bâle-Mulhouse.
Il a été entendu hier matin par les gendarmes de Sierentz. Ces derniers ont prévenu les autorités préfectorales.
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Les horaires des appels et les sens de déplacement signalés révèlent des incohérences, mais "ce genre d'événement arrive une fois ou deux par an", conclut un gendarme.
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Nota Banque Ovni : incohérence si l'on s'obstine à considérer un phénomène unique, alors qu'il est plus logique de considérer la simultanéité de plusieurs phénomènes distincts.
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On May 5, 1996, the Russian automated and unmanned logistics spaceship "Progress M-31" was launched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan by the Roscosmos agency using a Soyuz-U rocket, to bring cargo to the Russian space station MIR, which was done successfully. It was deorbited at 19:44 UTC, then re-entered and burned in the atmosphere on August 1, 1996 until 20:33 UTC i.e. 09:33 p.m. local time in Alsace.
Below: Progress M52, similar to Progress M31.
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The sources are numerous, see for example planet4589.org/space/gcat/data/derived/launchlog.html or en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_in_spaceflight
The most complete data I had (below) was on space.kursknet.ru/cosmos/english/cargoes/prm31.sht
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Unfortunately I have not yet managed to obtain its reentry trajectory.
Space junk reentry.
* = 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 | February 19, 2023 | Creation, [uwb1], [fme2]. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | February 19, 2023 | First published. |
