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 Tieffenbach, on October 21, 2014:

Case number:

ALSACAT-2014-10-21-TIEFFENBACH-1

Summary:

On October 24, 2014, the website of the regional newspaper "Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace" headlined about a "UFO over Tieffenbach".

The article told that one "Mario", of Tieffenbach, had seen "a weird show Tuesday morning" so on October 21, 2014, in the sky of Tieffenbach. "It was a contrail of a particular form."

In fact, as shown in the photo published with the article, visible below in this file, there was no reason at all to talk about a UFO: this was just a looped condensation trail.

Data:

Temporal data:

Date:	October 21, 2014
Time:	Morning.
Duration:	?
First known report date:	October 24, 2014
Reporting delay:	2 days.

Geographical data:

Department:	Bas-Rhin
City:	Tieffenbach
Place:	From the village, phenomenon in the sky.
Latitude:	48.903
Longitude:	7.249
Uncertainty radius:	1 km

Witnesses data:

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

Ufology data:

Reporting channel:	The regional Press.
Type of location:	From the village, phenomenon in the sky.
Visibility conditions:	Day.
UFO observed:	No
UFO arrival observed:	N/A
UFO departure observed:	N/A
Entities:	No
Photographs:	Yes.
Sketch(s) by witness(es):	No.
Sketch(es) approved by witness(es):	No.
Witness(es) feelings:	?
Witnesses interpretation:	?

Classifications:

Hynek:	N/A
ALSACAT:	Jet contrail.

Sources:

[Ref. dna1:] SITE WEB DU JOURNAL "DERNIERES NOUVELLES D'ALSACE":

Tieffenbach Rätsch - Tieffenbach

10/24/2014 at 05:00

A UFO above the village

Mario of Tieffenbach witnessed a strange spectacle in the sky of Tieffenbach on Tuesday morning. He observed a condensation trail of a particular form.

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Discussion:

The newspaper must have been in pain to tell anything interesting that day; so "UFO" scoffing helped.

Unless of course that since 2014, aliens started to use spaceship that leave contrails, a feature that seems to me quite unprecedented in the UFO literature...

Evaluation:

Jet contrail.

Sources references:

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

[dna1] * "Tieffenbach - Un ovni au-dessus du village", page of the website of the Sarre-Union issue of the regional newspaper Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace, France, October 24, 2014, at http://www.dna.fr/edition-de-sarre-union/2014/10/24/un-ovni-au-dessus-du-village

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 14, 2015	Creation, [dna1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	July 14, 2015	First published.

This page was last updated on July 14, 2015.