Tarn, France · 1980-11-24 · from the GEIPAN archive
On November 24, 1980 at around 10:20 PM, a motorist saw a whitish luminous point in the clear sky for one second. It moved from west to east along a straight trajectory and was located between 30° and 60° above the horizon. It disappeared instantly. No particular noise was heard during the observation. No other information was collected on this phenomenon, for which we lack information.
What stood out: vanishing suddenly
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This is an official case file of GEIPAN, the French space agency's unidentified aerospace phenomena office, machine translated from French. The original text and the full investigation file are at geipan.fr. We reproduce it with thanks and remove anything on request.
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