ALSACAT-2012-09-15-GRIESHEIMPRESMOLSHEIM-1
In March 2014, I found on a UFO website a short UFO sighting report by "Dididou" stating on that on September 15, 2012, at 09:50 p.m., on the highway with another person, they viewed "like an orange constellation " of a dozen orange yellowish balls that seemed much closer than the other stars in the sky.
As they were on the highway, the witness explained that he could not tell if the balls were moving. They disappeared after one another. The observation length was about 6 minutes.
| Date: | September 15, 2012 |
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| Time: | 09:50 p.m. |
| Duration: | ~6 minutes. |
| First known report date: | March 1, 2014 or earlier. |
| Reporting delay: | Day, months? |
| Department: | Bas-Rhin |
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| City: | Griesheim-près-Molsheim |
| Place: | From car driving on the A35 highway near Griesheim-près-Molsheim, UFOs in the sky |
| Latitude: | 48.499 |
| Longitude: | 7.563 |
| Uncertainty radius: | 1 km |
| Number of alleged witnesses: | 2 |
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| Number of known witnesses: | 1 |
| Number of named witnesses: | 0 |
| Witness(es) ages: | Young adults, adults or aged. |
| Witness(es) types: | ? |
| Reporting channel: | On the web to UFO website "OVNI-France.fr". |
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| Type of location: | From inside driving car on highway, UFOs in the sky. |
| Visibility conditions: | Night |
| UFO observed: | Yes |
| UFO arrival observed: | ? |
| UFO departure observed: | N/A |
| Entities: | No |
| Photographs: | No. |
| Sketch(s) by witness(es): | No. |
| Sketch(es) approved by witness(es): | No. |
| Witness(es) feelings: | ? |
| Witnesses interpretation: | UFO |
| Hynek: | NL |
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| ALSACAT: | Probable Chinese lanterns. |
[Ref. ofe1:] "OVNI-FRANCE.FR" WEBSITE:
Date: 09/15/2012
Department: 67 (Bas-Rhin)
Localization: GRIESHEIM NEAR MOLSHEIM
Time: 09:50 p.m.
Numbers [sic] of witnesses: 2 people
Type of observation: NL: Nocturnal Lights
Approxima [sic] duration of the observation: 6 minutes
What was seen: YELLOW ORANGEISH BALLS
Description of the facts:
Passing on the highway, we saw like an oranges constellation but that seemed much closer than the other stars in the sky, about a dozen balls. Being on the highway I cannot tell if they were moving, but they disappeared one after another.
DIDIDOU
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From the localization of the witnesses, I am tempted to suggest they saw one or more airplanes or helicopters landing at the airport of Strasbourg-Entzheim, as the runway is about 5 kilometers away only and right in the axis of the highway.
However, the description makes me think of the now very common Chinese lanterns that so often explain UFO reports in Alsace also in the 2000s.
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Above: The place of observation, probably about the green dot, is almost in line with the Entzheim airport's runway.
Probable Chinese lanterns.
* = 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 | March 29, 2014 | Creation, [ofe1]. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | March 29, 2014 | First published. |
