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 Benfeld, on April 12, 2014:

Case number:

ALSACAT-2014-04-12-BENFELD-1

Summary:

On April 13, 2014, a person informed me by email that he observed a UFO phenomenon on April 12, 2014 between 1:05 and 1:10 near Benfeld in the Bas-Rhin.

Data:

Temporal data:

Date:	April 12, 2014
Time:	01:05 a.m.
Duration:	?
First known report date:	April 13, 2014
Reporting delay:	Hours, 1 day.

Geographical data:

Department:	Bas-Rhin
City:	Benfeld
Place:	?
Latitude:	48.370
Longitude:	7.590
Uncertainty radius:	4 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:	Email sent to me.
Type of location:	?
Visibility conditions:	Night.
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:	Totally insufficient information.

Sources:

[Ref. pgs1:] EMAIL TO ME:

Subject: no subject
Sent on: April 13, 2014, 11:59 PM
From: [email]
To: patrick.gross@inbox.com

Hello,

I observed a UFO phenomenon on 4/124/2014 between 1:05 and 1:10 near Benfeld (67).

By [l]ooking on the Internet to see if other people have observed the same phenomenon I came across your website that seems to list them.

Do you have a form to report my observation?

Have other people already reported this phenomenon?

Thank you in advance, best regards,

[Other partial name].

Discussion:

Having been particularly overwhelmed when I received the email [pgs1], I was unfortunately unable to follow up. I can just indicate that I did not received any corroborating testimony.

Evaluation:

Totally insufficient information.

Sources references:

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

[pgs1] * Email sent to me, April 13, 2014.

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	July 1, 2021	Creation, [pgs1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	July 1, 2021	First published.

This page was last updated on July 1, 2021.