On March 28, 1981, between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m., two people sight a craft that they first take for a fireball. The craft's speed is very high, on a northwest-northeast trajectory. Circular in s…
both described an orange orb · 25 km away
Hauts-de-Seine, France · 1981-01-01 · from the GEIPAN archive
On January 1, 1981, at around 9:40 PM, two police officers spotted a luminous phenomenon that intrigued them. Between 100 and 150 meters up in the sky, a yellow-orange glow was flickering. While observing the progress of this light, they saw a craft of circular shape, rotating on itself and which, at a steady, slow pace and without noise, seemed to begin a descent. The craft emitted various flashing lights and left behind it a short trail. The observation, which lasted about a minute, ended when the object was hidden by the landscape. No other information was gathered on this phenomenon, which remains unexplained.
What stood out: an orange orb
On March 28, 1981, between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m., two people sight a craft that they first take for a fireball. The craft's speed is very high, on a northwest-northeast trajectory. Circular in s…
both described an orange orb · 25 km away
On February 9, 1981, at around 2:45 p.m., a witness observed in the sky a fireball of orange color followed by a trail of gray smoke. This sphere descended slowly and silently. It disappeare…
both described an orange orb · 25 km away
The witness observes, in the southern-southeast suburbs of Paris, a luminous orange ball flying at low altitude toward Paris. The description and the movement according to the south wind (se…
both described an orange orb · in the same place
Recent testimony (April 19, 2010) of an old observation. On September 28, 2008, a witness observes in the sky for about 15 minutes two red luminous points. One of the two points moves slowly…
both described an orange orb · 13 km away
In the night from Friday 25 to Saturday 26 June 2010 at around 1 a.m., eight people observe in the Parisian sky the silent movement at low altitude and at constant speed of a very bright ora…
both described an orange orb · 13 km away
On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 at around 9:30 PM, a witness is intrigued by the presence of an orange light source in the sky. It suddenly disappears, and the witness then observes a dark circ…
both described an orange orb · 13 km away
On June 19, 1980 at 11:45 PM, a child saw his room light up and spotted through the window a triangular-shaped craft. Fixed or flashing lights illuminated the object, which moved without mak…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On August 6, 1980, around 11 p.m., three people saw a particular luminous phenomenon in the sky. For two to five minutes they observed two groups of 3 red lights, one of which was blinking. …
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On March 17, 1997, around 8 a.m., several witnesses and aircraft crews observed the passage of a green rocket whose descending trajectory and descriptions suggested an atmospheric reentry or…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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