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Case of Mulhouse, on June 29, 2019:

Case number:

ALSACAT-2019-06-29-MULHOUSE-1

Summary:

On June 30, 2019 at 11:30 p.m., a person anonymously uploaded a video from a cellphone using the "Snapchat" application to the testimonies collection section of the MUFON website.

The video was reportedly taken at Mulhouse on June 29, 2019 at 11:30 p.m.; the witness gave the title "red lights" and his report boiled down to saying: "Red lights in a circular shape moving in a diamond and a triangle".

The video shows Chinese lanterns like I myself often watched and even filmed in Mulhouse, where I live.

The MUFON case file was then copied with indication of source "MUFON" by the US Website UFO Stalker, which gives no comment or explanation; then on the blog "OVNI Paranormal" of Frenchman Christian Macé. The latter evokes as possibilities that they are Chinese lanterns, or... UFOs disguised as Chinese lanterns...

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[Ref. mun1:] "MUTUAL UFO NETWORK" (MUFON):

On June 30, 2019 at 06:25 p.m., a person submitted anonymously, from his phone, with the "Snapchat" application, a video on the testimonies collection section of the MUFON Web site.

The video was reportedly taken at Mulhouse on June 29, 2019 at 11:30 p.m.

The witness gave, in French, the title "lumières roufges" ("red lights") and his report was to say: "Des lumiéres rouges en forme circulaire se déplacant en losange et en triangle" ("Red lights in a circular shape moving in a diamond and a triangle").

[Ref. usr1:] SITE WEB "UFO STALKER":

[Ref. cme1:] CHRISTIAN MACE:

Discussion:

The video file information confirms the shooting date as June 29, 2019, but the time is 10:57 p.m., not 11:30 p.m.. The visual sighting may have lasted 2 minutes, the video lasted 40 seconds.

Chinese lanterns are one cause of some old tales of UFO sightings: During the "airship" wave of 1896 - 1897 in the USA, during the wave of 1972 in the US Midwest, etc.

Since these miniature hot air paper balloons can be ordered on the Internet at very low cost - they also commonly found in Alsace now in stores - there is no need anymore to take the trouble of manufacturing them yourself.

So since 2005, about everywhere and of course in Alsace, many people who do not yet know about them report them as UFOs or at least as a subject of puzzlement: "It was not planes, not satellites, not helicopters, etc...", commonly appears in the stories. Indeed they aren't.

In principle, any ufologist worthy of the title should be able to recognize a story related for sure or at least possibly to Chinese lanterns, but there are still ufologists who do not want to listen, or quibble, demanding that a guilty lantern is handed to them otherwise they want the story to remain a "UFO report".

Most of the time, I certainly cannot "scientifically prove" or provide "hard evidence" that this or that report is explained by Chinese lanterns; but I see nothing opposes it and nothing would justify to call it spacecraft from another world or who knows what else.

It is sometimes possible to find that there was, precisely at that time, in the vicinity, a release of lanterns, during a party, a wedding party, a birthday party etc. But these releases are now so usual in Alsace at least that they are not necessarily mentioned on festivity calendars.

Since 2005, they constitute the bulk of the "testimonies" of UFOs found on websites devoted to the subject of UFOs and essentially publishing such "web report"; generally the only treatment is the publication, without any information on a possible cause, without any investigation or comment.

In Alsace, such releases are especially popular now since fireworks and firecrackers, long tolerated, are now prohibited for use unless special exemptions; Alsatians therefore largely adopted the lanterns.

As these lanterns are usually released at private or public parties, they are most often seen on Saturday nights, often at wedding dates or official festivities such as the National Day or New Year's Eve, usually between 10 p.m. and midnight. They are then usually released in clusters. But sometimes the purchaser performs a "test flight" a few days before, sometimes with a single lantern.

Above: a Chinese lantern.

Evaluation:

Chinese lanterns.

Sources references:

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

• [mun1] * Indications and video posted on the Website of the "Mutual UFO Network" (MUFON), USA, June 30, 2019, at https://www.mufoncms.com/files_jeud8334j/101629_submitter_file1__Snapchat1199898230.mp4
• [usr1] * "UFO Sighting (FR-06292019-0014) Mulhouse, Grand Est on June 30, 2019", case record on the UFO Website UFO Stalker, USA, June 30, 2019, at https://ufostalker.com/sighting/101629
• [cme1] * "Ovnis filmés à Mulhouse dans le Haut-Rhin en France le 29 juin 2019",entry of the OVNI Paranormal blog of Christian Macé, France, June 30, 2019, at http://ovniparanormal.over-blog.com/2019/06/ovnis-filmes-a-mulhouse-dans-le-haut-rhin-en-france-le-29-juin-2019.html

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