ALSACAT-1998-11-15-DORLISHEIM-1
The ufology magazine Lumières Dans La Nuit for June 1999 reportedly published about a UFO sighting that occurred on November 15, 1995, at or about 9:35 p.m. in Dorlisheim in the Bas-Rhin.
The witness was driving on the D500 road, coming from Rosheim and going to Molsheim, when he suddenly saw a set of luminous rings, coming from the rear of the vehicle to move about ten meters above the car.
The phenomenon occupied the entire width of the windscreen and moved in an undulating path, such as a snake, with jerky movements.
No object was strictly speaking seen; it was a set of luminous cloudy rounds, "a laser phenomenon" was not excluded.
The sky was overcast quite low, and this phenomenon was below the cloud layer.
The observation lasted one minute.
| Date: | November 15, 1998 |
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| Time: | ~09:35 p.m. |
| Duration: | 1 minute. |
| First known report date: | June 1999 |
| Reporting delay: | 7 months. |
| Department: | Bas-Rhin |
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| City: | Dorlisheim |
| Place: | From the car driving near Dorlisheim from Rosheim to Molsheim, UFO in the sky. |
| Latitude: | 48.523 |
| Longitude: | 7.498 |
| Uncertainty radius: | 1 km |
| Number of alleged witnesses: | 1 |
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| Number of known witnesses: | 1 |
| Number of named witnesses: | ? |
| Witness(es) ages: | Young adult, adult or aged. |
| Witness(es) types: | ? |
| Reporting channel: | ? |
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| Type of location: | From the car driving on main road, UFO in the sky. |
| 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: | Probable Skytracers. |
[Ref. uwb1:] "UFOWEB" WEBSITE:
| CITIES | DEPT | LATITUDES | LONGITUDES | YEARS | |||
| Dorlisheim | 67 | 48,533 | 7.483 | 1998 | |||
[Ref. lcn1:] LUC CHASTAN - "BASE OVNI FRANCE":
General features
| Num Base: | 3096 |
| Department: | Bas Rhin (67) |
| Place of observation: | Dorlisheim |
| Latitude: | 48.533 |
| Longitude: | +7.483 |
| Date of observation: | 15 November 1998 |
| Hour: | 21:35 hours |
| Duration (HH:MM:SS): | 00:01:00 |
| Weather: | Sky covered low altitude |
| Type of observation: | Visual: Distant |
| Nbr of witness(es): | 1 |
| Official investigation: | No |
Features of the object
| Nbr of object: | 1 |
| Type of object: | Non-défini |
| Size: | Not specified |
| Color: | not defined |
| Luminosity: | Not specified |
| Visual characteristics: | No indication |
| Speed: | not defined |
| Movement/Displacement: | Not specified |
| Object on the ground: | No |
| Instantaneous disappearance: | No |
Observation
The witness drives on the D500 coming from Rosheim and going towards Molsheim. Suddenly a group of luminous rings, coming from the back of the vehicle passes at ten meters above the car. The phenomenon occupies all the width of the windshield and moves according to an undulating trajectory like a snake with jerked movements; duration one minute. The sky is covered rather low, the phenomenon is located below the vapor cloud. There is no object to be strictly accurate, but a group of luminous rounds of cloudy aspects. A phenomenon of laser is not to be excluded.
Sources
Lumières dans la Nuit issue 352
[Ref. spa1:] "SPICA" UFOLOGY ASSOCIATION:
| City | Date and hour of observation | General shape Identification |
General color Hypothesis |
Conclusion |
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| DORLISHEIM | Sunday 15 November 1998 at 09:35 p.m. | Circular, round or disc (2D) Unidentified |
information not communicated None |
Unsolved -lack of info |
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On the path traveled on the D400 before and after Dorlisheim, I find no nightclub in 2015. But this does not exclude that there was one in 1998, nor even that there was some temporary party place.
The first source told about "laser"; the device is not really a laser, but ordinary light projectors, motorized, of the "SkyTracer" type.
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One sometimes call them "discotheque lasers", it is often so in the regional Pres, as a cause of UFO sightings. They are actually not lasers but projectors of ordinary light.
The purpose of these Skytracers is to get attention from far away, up to miles away. Lasers are mostly effective on location, inside a nightclub or on a concert place.
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Their light can be white, but it can also have a green, blue, red, yellow hue... Motors are used to move the projections on 1, 2 or 3 axis. By software, they can be programmed to perform sequences of more or less repetitive figures; as witnesses often report.
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When there is vapor in the air from the ground up, the Skytracer produces a beam of light, fixed or mobile.
It can produce the impression of a "luminous cigar."
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But id a low cloud layer tops a mass of dry air on the ground, there is no visible beam, one sees the projection of the beam on the bottom of the clouds. It is mostly in such conditions that people sometimes are unable to recognize projectors.
With several networked and programmed Skytracers, it is possible de produce shows of the "flying saucer" or "flying saucers formation" kind.
Probable Skytracers.
* = 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 | August 29, 2015 | Creation, [uwb1], [lc], [spa1]. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | August 29, 2015 | First published. |
