ALSACAT-2015-09-20-MOLLKIRCH-1
On September 20, 2015, a non-anonymous person emailed me the story of his observation of that same morning at 06:15 a.m. from his village of Mollkirch.
The person says that when satisfying a natural urge on the manure in his garden, looking at the sky, as usual, his gaze was attracted by the movement of two "stars" among many other not very bright stars at that hour when the day begins to rise.
The two bright spots were very intense and separated by a very small angular distance. They performed a circular or elliptical motion that the witness described as erratic, and that is what had caught his attention.
This "dance" lasted about 15 seconds, then the spots were motionless for about 5 seconds.
Suddenly, one of the spot spun with absolutely phenomenal acceleration in a straight line to the south to disappear behind the mountain of Mollkirch.
A few seconds later, the second spot sped straight towards the East, also with a huge acceleration.
The witness states that the intensity of the two points increased significantly at the time of acceleration, "as if there was an energy input."
The witness said he had time to observe this from his position on an angular displacement of about 30 ° or about 30 cm in the starry background of the sky before its intensity was diffused in the day rise.
He gives a direction of about 315°, an angular height of about 70°, and indicates that the altitude was impossible to specify but it seemed very high to him, intuitively more than 10 km. He attached a location map to his email, visible below in this case file.
He said he is trained in electronics engineering and thinks he is able to appreciate the nature of physical phenomena, and that he is absolutely convinced that what he saw was not natural or of known origin, like a meteor, satellite or otherwise.
He says he is ready to admit that some countries have a more advanced aerodynamic technology than they claim, but as of this observation, he cannot understand how a pilot could survive the considerable acceleration he observed.
He concludes that if what he saw was not very spectacular in itself, without little green men, it is nevertheless something of a nature that defies all known and current laws of physics.
| Date: | September 20, 2015 |
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| Time: | 06:15 a.m. |
| Duration: | ~20 seconds. |
| First known report date: | September 20, 2015 |
| Reporting delay: | Hours. |
| Department: | Bas-Rhin |
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| City: | Mollkirch |
| Place: | From the garden outside home, UFO in the sky. |
| Latitude: | 48.504 |
| Longitude: | 7.383 |
| Uncertainty radius: | 500 m |
| Number of alleged witnesses: | 1 |
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| Number of known witnesses: | 1 |
| Number of named witnesses: | 1 |
| Witness(es) ages: | Adult. |
| Witness(es) types: | Man, trained in electronics. |
| Reporting channel: | Email to me. |
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| Type of location: | From the garden outside home, UFO in the sky. |
| Visibility conditions: | Night |
| UFO observed: | Yes |
| UFO arrival observed: | No |
| UFO departure observed: | Yes |
| Entities: | No |
| Photographs: | No. |
| Sketch(s) by witness(es): | No. |
| Sketch(es) approved by witness(es): | No. |
| Witness(es) feelings: | Puzzled. |
| Witnesses interpretation: | Nothing known. |
| Hynek: | NL |
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| ALSACAT: | Unidentified. |
[Ref. pgs1:] WITNESS EMAIL TO ME:
The attachment is a PDF file containing this screenshot of a map:
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This is a rare case; in which the witness spontaneously indicates quantitative data such as viewing direction and angular displacement. An indication of competence is also the mention the trajectory observed at the beginning, elliptical, could be circular; indeed a circle actually appearing as an ellipse when seen from a side.
I really do not see what the two spots could have been, I see they could not have been Chinese lanterns, nor meteors, nor sounding balloons, nor stars, not planets etc.
I am left with a relatively "good" report of something that has no obvious ordinary explanation.
Unidentified.
* = 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 |
| Editor: | Patrick Gross |
| Version: | Create/changed by: | Date: | Description: |
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| 0.1 | Patrick Gross | March 2, 2016 | Creation, [pgs1]. |
| 1.0 | Patrick Gross | March 2, 2016 | First published. |
