ALSACAT-2014-01-01-OSENBACH-1
In early March 2014, I found on a "UFO" website a report submitted anonymously about the observation of a "spherical orange light that disappears quickly," seen by two people on January 1, 2014 at 00:20 a.m. for about 3 minutes from Osenbach in the Haut-Rhin.
The person who gave the testimony stated it was a clear starry night, "we watched the fireworks towards the plain, when high in the sky appeared a mobile spherical orange light, slightly sparkling, we initially thought it was a plane. But observed with binoculars, it was only a bright orange gleam that quickly moved vertically while losing its intensity and its size, and totally disappeared behind a slight cloud."
It is obviously impossible to me not to think that it was probably a Chinese lantern launched like many others in Alsace to celebrate the New Year's Eve.
| Date: | January 1, 2014 |
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| Time: | 00:20 a.m. |
| Duration: | ~3 minutes |
| First known report date: | March 1, 2014 or earlier. |
| Reporting delay: | Hours, weeks? |
| Department: | Haut-Rhin |
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| City: | Osenbach |
| Place: | ? |
| Latitude: | 47.987 |
| Longitude: | 7.221 |
| Uncertainty radius: | 3 km |
| Number of alleged witnesses: | 2 |
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| Number of known witnesses: | 1 |
| Number of named witnesses: | 0 |
| Witness(es) ages: | ? |
| Witness(es) types: | ? |
| Reporting channel: | Web report to the UFO website "OVNI-France.fr". |
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| Type of location: | ? |
| Visibility conditions: | Night, clear starry sky, at least slight cloud. |
| UFO observed: | Yes |
| UFO arrival observed: | Uncertain |
| UFO departure observed: | No |
| 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 Chinese lantern. |
[Ref. ofe1:] "OVNI-FRANCE.FR" WEBSITE:
Date: 01-01-2014
Department: 68 (Haut-Rhin)
Localization: osenbach
Time: 0h20
Numbers [sic] of witnesses: 2 people
Type of observation: NL: Nocturnal Lights
Approxima [sic] duration of the observation: 3 minutes
What was seen: spherical orange light that disappears quickly
Description of the facts:
Clear starry night, we watched the fireworks towards the plain, when high in the sky a mobile spherical orange light appeared, slightly sparkling, we first took it for a plane. But observed with binoculars, it was only a bright orange gleam that quickly moved at the vertical while losing intensity and its size, and has totally disappeared behind a slight cloud.
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This was on a January 1st, just after midnight. New Year's Eve.
What do people often do then in Alsace?
Party, as everywhere in France, but more importantly, we launch Chinese lanterns, especially since firecrackers are severely regulated now.
And what does our witness describe? A Chinese lantern...
Of course, diehards might protest that I do not provide "scientific proof" it was a Chinese lantern and they may want to believe that this was perhaps an alien spaceship or a "paranormal phenomenon" taking the looks of Chinese lantern...
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Above: a Chinese lantern.
Probable Chinese lantern.
* = 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 6, 2014 | Creation, [ofe1]. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | March 6, 2014 | First published. |
