ALSACAT:

SUMMARY

Night furtive observation of a motionless shape reflecting on an inner wall; instant disappearance: lack of information.

DESCRIPTION

Testimony of an observation made in the spring of 2000 (without date day, month, time: arbitrary date of 01/05/2000) and collected in 2008.

One evening of spring 2000 a 13-year-old teenager observes a red light on the living room wall which seems to come from outside. The witness then sees for a few seconds behind a window a motionless shape that instantly disappears. Only one testimony is collected.

This is a testimony not exploitable by the Geipan. Indeed, the witness does not describe a UAP (aerospace phenomenon) but one or more lights on the ground, or on a wall, without the possibility of making a link with a section because no UAP is described. The whole reported 8 or 9 years later, without precise date.

Geipan classifies this case in C: lack of information.

cnes
CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES

DEPUTY DIRECTION OF THE TOULOUSE SPACE CENTER
GROUP OF STUDIES AND INFORMATION ON NON-IDENTIFIED AEROSPATIAL PHENOMENA

Responsible: J. Patenet geipan@cnes.fr

Foreword

As part of the expertise activity of unidentified aerospace phenomena of the CNES, the Geipan works to collect, analyze and study rigorously the testimonies collected during UFO observations, while guaranteeing witnesses the level of discretion they wish.

The rigor of the scientific approach requires us to bring together the most specific, the most complete and the most detailed information as possible, with a minimum of intermediaries. This means that the best information document is that which is freely written by the witness himself. This is why we have established the attached questionnaire so that the witness can fill it independently.

This questionnaire begins with a free narration of observation and continues with a list of more specific questions. It is important to start by freely writing all the memories preserved during the observation and this, before reading the questionnaire. Then, it will be necessary to fill it as completely as possible (you can however skip the questions you could not or would not want to answer). It may be that the questionnaire remained you memories or inspired by the comments. We then invite you to fill in the final pages provided for this purpose.

You will send the questionnaire back to us, after having filled it, it will then be studied with the other documents dealing with the same phenomenon. When the work is completed, we will let you know the conclusions that we may have drawn.

We thank you in advance for the contribution you make to our work.

The geipan head

J. Patenet

National Center for Spatial Studies

Headquarters

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Website: http\\www.cnes.fr
RCS PARIS B 775 665 912 - SIRET 775 665 912 000 82 / APE CODE 731 Z
TVA identification Nr.: FR 49 775 665 912

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QUESTIONNAIRE

This page and the following are intended to be used to write independently, the narration of your observation.

You are entirely free of the form, substance and duration of your story (you can add additional pages if necessary).

However, if you consider you have already made such a story in writing (in an earlier correspondence, for example), report it and immediately pass the questionnaire.

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Hello, my name is [-], I'm from Duppigheim in the Bas-Rhin, and here is a thing that I saw during the spring of the year 2000:

While I entered the living room where my mother was watching television, I noticed that on the wall that was on my left was the projection of a relatively lively red glow, at least approximately the power of a conventional flashlight. So I turned my head to the right, since the light seemed to come from there, towards the first French window when entering the room (there are two in all). I thought at first that what I saw then was a kind of decoration that would have been put in place on my neighbor's house and aunt opposite, Mrs [], whose house was on the other side of the street. This looked like the two torches that were placed at the entrance to the castles, except that the flames were red. But at that time, I was four meters from the French window, and this was just a brief sighting. So intrigued I went to the glow. And it is by moving that I realized a few key factors: first of all, there was no wooden rod or anything under the "flames", but above all, I could evaluate the distance. This was absolutely not on the other side of the street, but 1 or 2 meters from the window! And when I found myself about 2 meters from this French window, in the blink of an eye, and without this thing having had a single movement, it had disappeared!

Here is what I could see in the year 2000, for much more than five seconds, about ten. As of the size of this thing, I would give it 1m45 or 1m50 in view of the position of his eyes. But as the body of this thing was completely invisible, who knows if this creature was not on its knees...

something else: this could neither be a car nor the reflection of rear lights given the height of the window holder and the position of the street...

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We ask you to provide us with a certain number of information on the circumstances and content of your observation, by answering the following questionnaire.

It is for you to account for what you have personally did, seen, heard, felt, felt, etc..., regardless of what other people (having or not participated in the same observa could tell you or suggest you, at that time or afterwards.

If some questions seem not adequate or upset you for one reason or another, you may of course skip them. In any case, the CNES undertakes to respect the level of discretion you wish.

Information on the circumstances of the observation

Environmental indications

• Indicate the date and time of the start of your observation.
  Possibly indicate, if it is civilian, solar, astronomical or otherwise ... give the precision of the indications provided (for example "one day", or else "19h to 15 min", etc...

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Spring 2000: I was only 13 years old at the time, and did not have the presence of mind to note the date or the time!

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• Where were you at the time of observation? Be as specific as possible. If you moved during the observation, indicate the position at the start of the observation, the type of movement (on foot, by plane, by car, etc.), the heading and the approximate speed of your trip, if there have been several travel phases (repeated stops and departures,...):

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At the entrance of the living room, four meters from the 1st French window. I slowly moved on foot.

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• Indicate the weather conditions at the time of observation: presence of clouds (description), wind (force), temperature (with what precision), precipitation (light snow, pouring rain, ...), possible storm, etc ... if there has been an evolution of these weather conditions shortly before, during or shortly after observation, indicate it:

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Non-rainy weather anyway, but I don't think there have been clouds, but as it happened at night, I'm not 100% sure.

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• Indicate the mode of relief (mountainous, hilly, for example) where you were and the type of soil (sandy, rocky, or other...), the type of dwelling (in town, in a field near a village, near an isolated farm or far from any home,...):

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It was in the plain, in my village, in front of my house, and here is the address:

[-] 67 120 DUPPIGHEIM.

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• Indicate if necessary, the presence of constructions or installations with technical function: for example energy production (power plant, thermal, nuclear or other...) or raw material (mine, career,...), energy transport (low, medium or high voltage electric lines) or materials (Railway lines, airports, large roads, rivers, canals,...), or energy consumption (factory of this or that type,...) or any other element that would seem useful to report. Indicate where this installation was in relation to your observation place and if it was active:

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There are telephone and/or television cables that run along the street and connect the houses between them, but are more in height than that where I have observed the phenomenon.

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Observation Conditions

• Was there good visibility in the region of your observation? For example, point out if you were in a home, or in front of high mountains nearby, far or surrounded by building, or any other reason that could have limited your visibility to the direction or in depth:

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Very good visibility. Despite the window and the night (lighted street).

• Was there, at the time of your observation, one or more known phenomena (natural or artificial) in a direction close to that of the unidentified phenomenon (for example: the sun, the moon, stars, planets, meteorites, planes, helicopters, cars, or others...). If yes, indicate which and the relative position of the unidentified phenomenon in relation to them:

no. And no car!

• Was there any sources of noise known at the time of observation? (For example, conversations, aircraft or cars engines, electric motors, ...). Were these noises intense, permanent?:

No noise, apart from my mother's TV.

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• Were information used at the time of observation? (For example: did you observe visually behind a window, possibly tinted -of what color?-, did you wear glasses -what type?-, did you usually wear it?, did you use an optical instrument? (binocular, astronomical telescope,...) or an imageing instrument (camera, video camera, ...)?:

I observed from behind a window.

I wore glasses for astigmata (a lazy eye, the right in this case, but I have 10/10 on the left!)

• Were measurement and/or recording instruments, to your knowledge, in operation at the time of observation? (Radar, magnetic detector, radio station, ...). Did they detect something abnormal in the time of observation (some time before, for or some time later)?:

That, I don't remember ...

Situation of the witness in relation to the observation

This part of the questionnaire aims to help better understand the circumstances in which the observation was made, the state of preparation or preparation, of the witness vis-à-vis his observation.

• Age: Currently, 21 years old, at the time of the facts, 13 years old.
• Profession (if you have (had) several successive professions, indicate them):

• What type of training did you have during your studies (for example: primary, secondary, superior studies, in letters, languages, physical sciences, chemicals, medicine, or others ...)?:

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BEP of architecture and housing techniques (TAH) and BAC Pro Building Studies et Economy (BEE). And I got these two diplomas.

• What was your occupation at the precise moment of the start of your observation? (For example: were you alone? Did you walk after eating? Did you go to your work? Alone in your car? Or, accompanied by a colleague, did you talk about? On what subject? Or any other possibility ...). Be as precise and detailed as possible:

I entered alone in the room where my mother was, but she saw nothing and could not because the sofa file prevented it, and she was watching TV...

• What was your first reaction at the start of the observation? (For example, curiosity, fear, surprise, ...) If your reactions changed during the observation, detail them:

Curiosity: I said to myself "What is that?", but later I was afraid, when it was finished and I analyzed it and found that what I had seen was nothing conventional.

• What was your first idea about the nature of what you observed? Have you thought about a known phenomenon? If yes which one? When and why did you give up this interpretation?

As I said in the narration, I first believed in a decoration with a dubious taste, but by moving, I was able to assess the distance and see a very close proximity.

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• Do you have a precise opinion on this subject? Which one? What were your basis?

I thought that possible like I believe in God. No precise opinion on the subject.

• Was this opinion modified by your observation? If so, how do you formulate it now?

no.

• Who did you first speak about your observation? How did your interlocutors react?

I first told my mother. She told me that it had to be a cat or a car ... basically, she didn't really believe me.

• If a person doubted the reality of your observation, what would you answer?

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That behind the 2 red lights, I saw the house (which was really there), of my aunty Jeanne!

• What type of extra professional activity do you like to practice? (For example: DIY, gardening, sport -which one-, reading, music or other ...)? What type of books do you preferably read (for example: novels of adventure, love, police, or philosophical essays, popular scientific works, or others...)?

I often bike, I like to watch football games... but I read very little...

• Were these extra professional activities or these readings changed by your observation?

not at all!

• Do you think that the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations would be incompatible with the ideas commonly accepted on the destiny of man on his role on earth? Do you think it is incompatible with the teaching of churches, with the role of God in the creation of the world?

oh my, I never asked myself these kinds of questions!

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• Do you think that science will fully understand the universe?
  If you don't think so, explain why. Do you think Science will, in your opinion, explain all unidentified aerospace phenomena?

Science ... Mmmmh .... yes, but only if the human being managed to master it entirely, and I doubt that we have this capacity.

Information on the content of the observation

General information on the beginning and the end of the observation

• How did you realize the presence of the phenomenon? (For example: a noise has attracted your attention, or a light appeared, or you looked elsewhere by chance and saw the light, or other circumstance(s):

Light on a wall.

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• What was the direction in which the phenomenon was at? If possible indicate this direction compared to the North on the graph below. Otherwise, indicate this direction in relation to objects (village, house, crossroads, ...) fixed in the landscape. If your memories are not very precise on this subject, indicate the imprecision (for example: probably towards the northeast):

It was to the south, because at the level of the southern facade of the house.

• Do you remember what height in the sky was the phenomenon initially? If possible indicate this height on the attached graphic:

• Did the phenomenon show itself at one time or another in front of a known object, far from you with a known distance: for example, in front of a house, trees, hills, mountains or

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• others ...? If so, how far was this known object?

My aunt's house was about twenty meters behind.

• What was the minimum distance separating you from the phenomenon during your observation? What is the accuracy of your estimate? (For example: minimum distance between 100 and 200 meters, ...):

Between 3 and 4 meters.

• What was the estimated duration of your observation? What do you think is the precision of this estimate? (For example: 10 minutes to 3 minutes,...):

8 to 15 seconds...

• What stopped your observation? And, how did the phenomenon behave when you stopped observing it? Be as precise as possible: for example "I continued my route while the phenomenon remained motionless in such a direction, at such an approximate distance", or "the phenomenon moved quickly in such direction by fading in the obscurity and when it disappeared, I was going to bed", or the light phenomenon died at once", or any other description of the circumstances:

It was motionless and disappeared suddenly.

DETAILED INFORMATION ON THE CHANGES OF THE PHENOMENON

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Some phenomena are complex and give rise to the observation of several visible forms, either simultaneously or successively. Visible forms can be either of the same type or different types. The questionnaire is designed in order to describe separately and in detail each type of visible form, to indicate how many visible forms of each type have been observed, then to describe the relative developments in time and space of these forms.

Each type of visible form must therefore be described in detail as if it were alone. In particular, if there is a change of appearance, each phase of the change will first be described independently of those who follow or preceding.

1st type of visible shape

• Description of the trajectory (for example: motionless with sudden departure, or rectilinear, or in a spiral by climbing south, or in a circle, vertically of such a village). One can possibly use the graph below to draw the evolution:

• Types of speed (for example: regular, or with fast accelerations, or sudden changes, or other ...):

No speed: motionless from start to finish.

• Specify the type of net contour (for example: very clear outline, or vague, vague, or other ...):

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Lightly less clear contour than when you look directly at a flaslight.

• Type of transparency (for example: transparent or translucent, or opaque, or other form ...):

Opaque light center.

• Type of shape: for example regular form (compared to a simple geometric shape) or complex (be detailed but if you are not sure of you or if your memories are not precise enough, say it: for example, memory too imprecise, or I am not sure). Possibly, make a sketch:

Two rounds, with a slight halo.

• Describe the color (green, blue, red, ocher, white, ...) if there are several colors in the same shape, specify them by indicating their relative positions and intensities. If necessary make a sketch:

bright red.

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• Indicate the brightness (for example: intense brightness, or as bright as the sun, or very little contrasting on the background of the sky, or other...) indicate, if you have noticed, if this light created a shadow or not:

Luminosity of relative, but not dazzling intensity.

• If you have noticed it, indicate if this visible shape made noise (for example, silent light form or accompanied by a strident noise, or I do not remember,...):

No noise apparently.

• In the phase being described, did the phenomenon resemble a known object? If yes which one? Did it look like it a little or a lot? (For example, looked a bit like the moon, or a lot to a rugby ball,...):

no.

• Did you distinguish details around the visible form? If yes, which ones? (For example: no discernible external details, or else there were rays or light beams to the ground or to the floor, or a luminous trail, or other ...) If it helps, make a sketch:

No discernible external details.

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• Did you distinguish details on the visible form? If yes, which ones? (For example, no specific details, or there were dark strips parallel to each other, or there were four round or square spots of light yellow color regularly spaced, or other ...) If it helps, make a sketch:

No.

• Can you estimate the size of this visible form by designating a known object and indicating how far it would be the same size as the visible form? (for example, a car at 100m, or a tennis ball at 10m, or other comparison ...):

Not an object, but like a dwarf, 3 or 4 meters.

• Were there, during the observation, several forms of the same type as the one who has just been described? If so, how many?:

No, but it was like 2 eyes.

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If it applies, take up all the questions asked for the 1st type (pages 14 to 17) and answer them in the same order, within the following framework:

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• If there have been several forms visible during observation, describe their relative changes in detail: for example, a type 1 form and two type 2 forms appeared side by side and disappeared in the same rime, or else, a type 1 form appeared for 2 minutes then changed on the spot into a type 2 form which disappeared after 3 minutes, or any other changes that you would have observed...:

just a form and no transformation.

Other aspects of the phenomenon

You will now describe the effects of the phenomenon on the environment, if there were. The environment means here the soil, vegetation, animals, men, as well as electrical systems, machines, engines, etc ..

The effects can be physical strictly speaking, or physiological or psychological (effects on behavior).

• Have there been temporary effects (ie who disappear with the phenomenon)? Which ones?:

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The red gleam visible on the wall.

• have there been lasting effects (that is to say who persist significantly after the disappearance of the phenomenon)? Which ones?:

• Are there aspects of observation that have not been mentioned in the questionnaire? If yes, describe them:

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