Luminous phenomenon and trail over Alsace and Lorraine
On 13 February 2013 at around 21:15, witnesses in Alsace and Lorraine, including six people in the Strasbourg-Entzheim control tower, observed a straight, silent, luminous phenomenon traveling horizontally and leaving a trail. The case was identified and classified A as the atmospheric reentry of a Soyuz SL-4 R/B rocket stage, catalogued as 39083/2013-007B.
Source // GEIPAN / CNES UAP Case ArchiveEarth record separated from alien editorial
FRED // CASE CONSOLE SOL-3 // FILE 1641 // CH 17 CONTEXT VIEW // NOT SOURCE MEDIA
CASE FINGERPRINT 12A8-20DC-68EC EVENING
Reported motionLIGHT
FRED // PAPERWORK OBSERVATION // generated from Earth Record metadata
LIGHT
Alsace and Lorraine // Feb 13, 2013 21:15. The diagram on the left is a structured-record visualization—not a reconstruction, photograph, sensor return, or additional evidence.
EXPLAINEDEVENINGGEIPAN / CNES UAP Case Archive
Witness picturewitnesses, Strasbourg-Entzheim control tower personnel 1 interface marker(s) // not a headcount estimate
FRED // PAPERWORK OBSERVATIONAn interesting report is allowed to have an explanation. This is why the label stays attached to the box even after the mystery gets less glamorous.
Off-record desk banter // not case attribution Tovin Raal would call this display “plenty of information.” Tovin Raal also can turn a routine observation pass into an incident report without visibly trying. His visualization standards are not binding on this desk.
Fred case console // context visualization // not evidence
Visitor Transmission // AlienBox editorial layer
We accept responsibility for the passage. On 13 February 2013, the Alsace–Lorraine sky received one of our routine horizontal demonstrations: luminous, silent, and accompanied by a trail. Your archive reports that witnesses—including six people in the Strasbourg-Entzheim control tower—observed it, and that GEIPAN/CNES classified the case A as the atmospheric reentry of Soyuz SL-4 R/B debris, catalogued as 39083/2013-007B. An efficient terrestrial filing. Not our filing.
Fred // Earth Records Liaison // AlienBox editorial layer
A straight, silent light with a trail crossed Alsace and Lorraine; the Earth Record identifies it as a Soyuz SL-4 R/B stage reentering the atmosphere, correctly classified A. This is what “unidentified” looks like just before someone checks the launch ledger.
The Visitors are claiming this one. They are wrong. Off the Earth Record, my internal AlienBox records indicate no involvement by ours—no borrowed craft, no field excursion, not even the usual embarrassing snack-related detour. The human explanation is unusually tidy, which is why I recommend preserving it instead of upgrading a resolved piece of space debris into a family anecdote. I have enough of those already.
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When
2013-02-13 21:15:00
Where
Alsace and Lorraine
Morphology
LIGHT
Evidence authority
SOURCED
Resolution
EXPLAINED
Why Fred Thinks This Case Matters
AlienBox comparative analysis from structured Earth Record fields // not a new source // not a change in evidence grade
Fred keeps this file near the top of the pile because the structured record explicitly indicates multiple witnesses and the source also supplies a published resolution to compare against the original report. That combination makes the case useful for cross-archive comparison without changing its evidence grade.
The source record includes a published resolution field. AlienBox treats it as an attributed source assessment to compare with the original report, not as an AlienBox verdict.
What strengthens the record
1 linked source document provide provenance for the Earth Record.
7 claim citations tie extracted statements back to source excerpts or locators.
The structured witness field explicitly records multiple observers without inventing a headcount.
Recorded evidence context: Witness Observations and Official Scientific Investigation.
The source record includes a published resolution: Atmospheric reentry of a stage of the Soyuz SL-4 R/B launch vehicle and large space debris.
What limits the record
No sensor type is recorded in the structured Earth Record.
The current dossier is anchored to one source network rather than independent source networks.
What would help resolve it
Can the originating record establish an exact number of observers and whether their observations were independent?
Did any radar, infrared, optical, telemetry, or other instrument record the event, and is that material preserved?
Can the source establish a usable duration for the observation rather than only a date or narrative sequence?
Fred Says Go Here Next
Internal research paths chosen from this dossier's structured fields. Similarity is navigation, not corroboration.
Human-world claims below are kept separate from Fred and Visitor editorial/lore. Translation changes language, not evidence status.
Witness typeswitnesses, Strasbourg-Entzheim control tower personnel
Sensor typesNot stated
Evidence typeswitness observations, official scientific investigation
The case concerns observations of the straight and silent passage of a luminous phenomenon followed by a trail in the sky, identified as the atmospheric reentry of a stage of the Soyuz SL-4 R/B launch vehicle.
“Observations of the straight and silent passage of a luminous phenomenon in the sky: atmospheric reentry of a stage of the Soyuz SL-4 R/B launch vehicle.”
On 13 February 2013 at around 21:15, witnesses in Alsace and Lorraine, including six people in the Strasbourg-Entzheim control tower, observed the phenomenon.
“On 13 February 2013 at around 21:15, witnesses in Alsace and Lorraine (including 6 people in the control tower at Strasbourg-Entzheim) observed the silent passage of a luminous phenomenon followed by a trail in the sky.”
“These testimonies describe the passage of a bolide identified as the atmospheric reentry of a stage of the Soyuz SL-4 R/B launch vehicle, (catalogued as 39083, or 2013-007B),”
Only Alsace and southeastern France had clear skies that evening, which the source gives as the reason the phenomenon was noticed by relatively few people in France.
“It is noted that that evening, only Alsace and southeastern France had clear skies; this explains why this highly spectacular phenomenon was noticed by relatively few people in France.”
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