ALSACAT-2013-10-01-SCHILTIGHEIM-1
A male witness reported to GEIPAN that on October 1, 2013, between 11:15 p.m. and 11:25 p.m., he observed from his/her home the movements of two bluish white lights moving together at random and passing through the clouds. Ten minutes later, the phenomena disappeared, but two hours later, identical lights appeared and then disappeared suddenly.
He wrote for example: "These lights seemed to use the clouds to try to hide themselves, but their light intensity still passed through the clouds even if this intensity was relatively 'soft'."
The witness took some pictures.
GEIPAN put this case in their "B" category as "likely observation of a luminous animation, skyrose type."
| Date: | October 1, 2013 |
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| Time: | 11:15 p.m. |
| Duration: | Minutes. |
| First known report date: | 2013 |
| Reporting delay: | Day, weeks. |
| Department: | Bas-Rhin |
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| City: | Schiltigheim |
| Place: | From home, UFO in the sky. |
| Latitude: | 48.606 |
| Longitude: | 7.746 |
| Uncertainty radius: | 4 km |
| Number of alleged witnesses: | ? |
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| Number of known witnesses: | ? |
| Number of named witnesses: | ? |
| Witness(es) ages: | ? |
| Witness(es) types: | ? |
| Reporting channel: | To the French official UAP study group GEIPAN. |
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| Type of location: | From home in city, UFO in the sky. |
| Visibility conditions: | Night |
| UFO observed: | Yes |
| UFO arrival observed: | ? |
| UFO departure observed: | Yes |
| Entities: | No |
| Photographs: | Yes. |
| Sketch(s) by witness(es): | No. |
| Sketch(es) approved by witness(es): | No. |
| Witness(es) feelings: | Puzzled. |
| Witnesses interpretation: | ? |
| Hynek: | NL |
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| ALSACAT: | Skytracer. |
[Ref. gei1:] GROUPE D'ETUDES ET D'INFORMATIONS SUR LES PHENOMENES AEROSPATIAUX NON IDENTIFIES (G.E.I.P.A.N.):
| SCHILTIGHEIM (67) 01.10.2013 | |
| Observed on: | 10/01/2013 |
| Region: | Alsace |
| Department: | Rhin (Bas) |
| Class: | B |
| Summary: | SCHILTIGHEIM (67) 10/01/2013. Observations of the meneuvers in a cloudy sky of bluish white lights: probable observation of a luminous show coming from a projector of the Skyrose type. |
| Description: |
On October 1, 2013 between 11:15 pm and 11:25 pm a witness observes from his home the movements of two bluish white lights moving together randomly and passing through the clouds. Ten minutes later, the phenomena disappear. Two hours later, identical lights appear and disappear suddenly. The witness took some pictures. The witness's description of bluish white lights moving together in a random fashion, whose light passes through the clouds, is very much reminiscent of a luminous animation such as discos use. The photos of the witness show that the light spots are visible only on the clouds, proof of a projection of light from the ground. We note however that Wednesday night is an unusual day for this type of animation. Because of the small strangeness of this phenomenon GEIPAN did not conduct a thorough investigation to find exactly the origin of the phenomenon. The GEIPAN classifies this case "B": probable observation of a luminous animation, type skyrose. |
| Report: | None. |
| Details of the testimony | |
| Witness | |
| Date of the observation | 01-10-2013 |
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| Age | |
| Profession | |
| Sex | Male |
| Réaction | |
| Credibility | |
| Conditions | |
| Environment | Home |
| Weather conditions | |
| Hour of the observation | Numbered : 10 p.m. - 00 p.m. |
| Reference frame | |
| Distance between phenomenon and witness | |
| Start of the observation | |
| End of the observation | |
| Localization | |
| Angle of site | Middle of the sky; Middle of the sky |
| Direction of observation | Not-specified |
| Heading | |
| Trajectory | |
| Nature of the observation | Descriptive terms (lights, etc) |
| Characteristic of the observation | Multiples |
| Global shape | Other shape (comparison) |
| Color | Other (other colors) |
| Apparente size | |
| Apparent speed | |
| Noise | No noise |
| Effect on the environment | |
| Number | 2 |
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Your ObservationWe will ask you to provide as much information as possible about your observation. The most important thing is to leave nothing out: it is often the details that make it possible to solve the investigations. Do not hesitate to give the maximum of information, even if your memories are incomplete or that certain elements seem unimportant to you. If you are not sure about this or that detail, tell us about your doubts, but, again, do not omit anything. We need to be able to visualize everything you've seen, like re-running the movie of your observation. Use the end of this page to tell the story of your observation and continue on free paper as much as you want: Your free account of the observation: Two white / bluish lights (halo type) randomly 'heading' but remaining close to each other. These lights seemed to use the clouds to try to hide themselves, but their light intensity still passed through the clouds even if this intensity was relatively 'soft'. I observed the phenomenon about ten minutes between 11:15 p.m. and 11:25 p.m. Then the lights stopped. I see the phenomenon again between 1:15 and 1:25. At 1:25 the lights disappear suddenly. I stayed awake until 2 a.m. to watch but nothing else appeared in my field of vision. |
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Images in high resolution are attached, looking like this when sized down to 25%:
The whole set of the original images can be downloaded here (Caution: 10 Mb).
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The description and the images are all conform to a discotheque projector, of the "SkyTracer" kind.
At between 2 and 4 km in the south of Schiltigheim, there was, that night, animations, within the "Festival Musica", at the Cité de la Musique et de la Danse of Strasbourg.
It was said:
"Pascal Rambert, Yves Godin and Alexandre Meyer created Memento Mori, an experience much more than a simple show. The experience starts in the absolute darkness... No words could reflect the experience Memento Mori invites the viewers to, a sensorial and peception experience between hypnosis and wonderment." And: "The show includes long periods of total darkness: caution to person sensitive to clautrophobia."
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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.
Skytracer.
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| Main author: | Patrick Gross |
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| Contributors: | None |
| Reviewers: | None |
| Editor: | Patrick Gross |
| Version: | Create/changed by: | Date: | Description: |
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| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | February 14, 2018 | Creation, [gei1]. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | February 14, 2018 | First published. |
