Seine-Maritime, France · 1981-04-07 · from the GEIPAN archive
An orange orb in Seine-Maritime, France
On April 7, 1981 at around 8 p.m., witnesses observed a fireball at an altitude of about 4,000 meters. It was followed by a colored trail and then seemed to fall in the surrounding area. No other testimony was collected. These people, based on their descriptions of the phenomenon, were probably witnesses to an atmospheric reentry.
On November 22, 1981, between 7:40 and 8:00 a.m., several people are on the ring road at the airfield. Daylight has not fully broken but visibility is good. Suddenly they see a red-orange ba…
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. W…
On August 1, 1981 at around 8:30 PM, a motorist saw due west a red fireball that split into two. Gradually diminishing and turning a more orange color, this phenomenon disappeared by blendin…
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…
On September 22, 1981 at 6:15 a.m., a witness saw from the window of his bedroom a flying object moving along a northwest-southeast trajectory. During the observation, which lasted one minut…
This observation case is one of the cases classified as "C" by GEPAN and was the subject of a re-examination (see the document Investigation Notes). On January 23, 1981, around 9 p.m., a wit…
both described an orange orb
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