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Nièvre, France · 1981-02-12 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Nièvre, France

Between February 12 and March 11, 1981, several witnesses saw at night and at the same times a light in the sky that seemed unusual to them. This luminous point moved each time very slowly, in the same direction E-SE, and seemed to blink. A check with astronomy software allows us to state that the witnesses probably saw the Saturn-Jupiter conjunction that was particularly visible at the beginning of that year.

 

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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.