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.

Case of Masevaux, on October 20, 1979:

Case number:

ALSACAT-1979-10-20-MASEVAUX-1

Summary:

Data:

Temporal data:

Date:	October 20, 1979
Time:
Duration:
First known report date:
Reporting delay:

Geographical data:

Department:	Haut-Rhin
City:	Masevaux
Place:
Latitude:
Longitude:
Uncertainty ratio:

Witnesses data:

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

Ufology data:

Reporting channel:	?
Type of location:	?
Visibility conditions:	Night
UFO observed:	Yes
UFO arrival observed:	Yes
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:	?

Classifications:

Hynek:	?
ALSACAT:	?

Sources:

[Ref. gmh1:] GILLES MUNSCH:

F/98/68791020 (04)

Region of MASEVAUX (68)

Investigatione: G. Munsch

Saturday, October 20, 1979 - MASEVAUX - 7:55 pm legal time.

Mr. C...... S ......, deputy head of the forestry district, walks around his house when he sees in the sky, above the SUDEL mounts, a "ball

.../...

- 5 -

... matt orange in color that moves from the northwest to the south, apparently at high speed and at a fairly high altitude. It is accompanied by a blue trail tinged with purple (like a butane flame!), Suddenly it makes a very tight turn (at least apparently!), to set off again in the opposite direction towards the North-West. The observation lasted only a few seconds. The witness immediately informed the gendarmerie, then the Bâle-Mulhouse aerodrome and the Colmar-Meyenheim air base, then the following days various authorities.

He will learn from the gendarmerie that various disturbances have appeared in the radio and television broadcasts of German origin (FRG). No other side effects were noticed.

[Ref. fdz1:] FRANCOIS DIOLEZ:

In the ufological bulletin La Ligne Bleue Survolé?, its editor ufologist F. Diolez provides a synthesis of the observations in the North-East of France appearing in their catalog.

He noted that the cases "F 98/88791020 (0I) - (02) - (03)" as well as "F 98/68791020 (04) seem to describe the same phenomenon which interested the Vosges mountains on these two sides 68 and 88 - from 7:55 p.m. to 8:45 p.m., then 9:30 p.m. - 9:45 p.m." He then assimilates them into a single case, noting that it will however be necessary to "take the nuances into account."

[Ref. aes1:] A.E.S.V. UFOLOGY BULLETIN:

October 20: - A witness sees from his home, an object in the shape of a matt orange ball followed by a trail. This was happening above Masevaux (Haut Rhin).

Note: this is one among other cases of 1979 which according to this bulletin would "confirm" an important "UFO activity" at the time of the affair (the hoax) of the Franck Fontain abduction by aliens in Cergy-Pontoise in 1979.

[Ref. ufa1:] UFOLOGY MAGAZINE "UFOLOGIA":

UFOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS

(Summary of the Press)

Satrurday, October 20, 1979 - MASEVAUX (Haut-Rhin)

At 7:55 p.m., Mr. Ch. Sembach saw from his home an object in the shape of an orange rod, dull, followed by a brilliant purplish trail, moving above the mount of the Sudel.

LDLN.nr190

Discussion:

Evaluation:

Sources references:

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

[gmh1] * Local ufologist Gilles Munsch, in the ufology bulletin La Ligne Bleue Survolée?, bulletin of the Cercle Vosgien "Lumières Dans La Nuit", Thaon-les-Vosges, Vosges, France, #3, pp 4-5, 1980.
[fdz1] * Local ufologist François Diolez, in the ufology bulletin La Ligne Bleue Survolée?, bulletin of the Cercle Vosgien "Lumières Dans La Nuit", Thaon-les-Vosges, Vosges, France, #5, page 11, 1980.
[aes1] * Ufologist Perry Petrakis, in the ufology bulletin Bulletin de l'Association d'Etude sur les Soucoupes Volantes (A.E.S.V.), France, #13, page 5, January 1980.
[ufa1] * Ufology magazine Ufologia, of the ufology groupe C.F.R.U., France, #26, page 17, April / May / June 1981.

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	ZZZ	Creation, [1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	ZZZ	First published.

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