Haut-Rhin, France · 1980-12-12 · from the GEIPAN archive
On December 12, 1980, at around 5 a.m., a female motorist saw an orange light in her rearview mirror. About 300 meters away in the forest, an oval-shaped object emitted flashing lights that changed from green to red to blue. The witness stopped to observe. This shape measured about 5 meters wide and 2 meters high. Impressed, the motorist drove off and saw the object disappear at an intersection. No other information or testimony was collected about this phenomenon, for which we lack information.
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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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