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Dordogne, France · 1981-08-03 · from the GEIPAN archive

Red lights in Dordogne, France

On August 3, 1981 at around 10:45 p.m., several people saw an object zigzagging at very high altitude. The trajectory was east-west and it was moving at very high speed. The luminous object emitted flashing white and red lights. No noise was heard during the observation, which lasted less than five minutes. No explanation for this phenomenon could be given due to a lack of data.

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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.