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 Colmar, on November 3, 2009:

Case number:

ALSACAT-2009-11-03-COLMAR-1

Summary:

In a listing of UFO sighting reports in the Haut-Rhin on their website, the Alsatian ufology association SPICA noted noted in 2015 that on Tuesday, November 3, 2009, at 09:30 p.m. in Colmar in the Haut-Rhin a white luminous dot was seen, SPICA indicating that it is not resolved by lack of information, that the phenomenon is not identified and that there is no hypothesis about its nature.

Data:

Temporal data:

Date:	November 3, 2009
Time:	09:30 p.m.
Duration:	?
First known report date:	May 2015
Reporting delay:	Hour, 5 years.

Geographical data:

Department:	Haut-Rhin
City:	Colmar
Place:	?
Latitude:	48.078
Longitude:	7.355
Uncertainty radius:	3 km

Witnesses data:

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

Ufology data:

Reporting channel:	Listing of sightings by the regional ufology group SPICA.
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:	NL
ALSACAT:	No strangeness specified, totally insufficient information.

Sources:

[Ref. spa1:] "SPICA" UFOLOGY GROUP:

City	Date and hour of observation	General shape Identification	General color Hypothesis	Conclusion
COLMAR	Tuesday 3 November 2009 at 09:30pm	luminous dot Unidentified	white None	Unsolved -lack of info

Discussion:

The listing by the SPICA group gives no source, I did a search on the web and in my documentation, in vain. So actually there is not enough information, if that is all the information there is.

For the rest, starting from the little I know, i.e.: a white luminous dot at 09:30 p.m., there are certainly a wealth of possible ordinary explanations: satellite, plane, Chinese lantern, helicopter, the ISS, car headlight, photographic anomaly, advertising balloon, etc. etc. etc.

Evaluation:

No strangeness specified, totally insufficient information.

Sources references:

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

[spa1] * "DEPARTEMENT 68 - HAUT-RHIN", listing of UFO sighting reports by the Alsatian ufology group SPICA, Alsace, France, not dated, found in May 2015, at http://www.spica.org/Page_Listing_68.htm

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	May 15, 2015	Creation, [spa1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	May 15, 2015	First published.

This page was last updated on May 15, 2015.