ALSACAT:

ALSACAT is my comprehensive catalog of UFO sighting reports in Alsace, the region is the North-East of France, whether they are "explained" or "unexplained".

The ALSACAT catalog is made of case files with a case number, summary, quantitative information (date, location, number of witnesses...), classifications, all sources mentioning the case with their references, a discussion of the case in order to evaluate its causes, and a history of the changes made to the file. A general index and thematic sub-catalogs give access to these Alsatian case files.

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Case of Bartenheim, on August 11, 2004:

Case number:

ALSACAT-2004-08-11-BARTENHEIM-1

Summary:

The Alsatian ufology and astronomy association SPICA noted in their January 2005 newsletter an observation in Barthenheim in the Haut-Rhin on Wednesday, August 11, 2004, for which someone said:

"I saw this thing before going to bed, the lights looked like a plane but the planes have strobes below and above and lights on the sides of the wings but this craft had lights that went from left to right and the color was not like on an airplane."

"Orange, red, white. Its altitude was of about 500m to 1500 m."

Data:

Temporal data:

Date:	August 11, 2004
Time:	?
Duration:	?
First known report date:	January 2005
Reporting delay:	4 months.

Geographical data:

Department:	Haut-Rhin
City:	Bartenheim
Place:	From home, UFO in the sky.
Latitude:	47.633
Longitude:	7.481
Uncertainty radius:	5 km

Witnesses data:

Number of alleged witnesses:	1
Number of known witnesses:	1
Number of named witnesses:	0
Witness(es) ages:	?
Witness(es) types:	?

Ufology data:

Reporting channel:	"SPICA News" regional ufology bulletin.
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:	?

Classifications:

Hynek:	?
ALSACAT:	Insufficient information, possible airplane.

Sources:

[Ref. spa1:] UFOLOGY GROUP "SPICA":

BARTENHEIM (68) Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Source: SPICA

I've seen this craft before going to bed, the lights looked like a plane but the planes have above and below strobes and lights on the sides of the wings, but this craft had lights that went from left to right and the color werent like on an airplane.

Orange, red, white. Its altitude of about 500m to 1500 m.

Discussion:

Understandably, someone was intrigued by something, but there is not even an hour of observation; and of course neither duration nor direction nor angular sizes nor elevation, we do not know if the thing was making noise or not, etc.

So I can only note that the location is known for numerous "UFOs" that were actually airplanes from the nearby airport.

Evaluation:

Insufficient information, possible airplane.

Sources references:

* = Source is available to me.
? = Source I am told about but could not get so far. Help needed.

[spa1] * Ufology bulletin SPICA News of the SPICA ufology group, Alsace, France, #6, page 25, January 2004.

File history:

Authoring:

Main author:	Patrick Gross
Contributors:	None
Reviewers:	None
Editor:	Patrick Gross

Changes history:

Version:	Create/changed by:	Date:	Description:
0.1	Patrick Gross	March 4, 2016	Creation, [spa1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	March 4, 2016	First published.

This page was last updated on March 4, 2016.