Haute-Savoie, France · 1981-08-05 · from the GEIPAN archive
Photographed in Haute-Savoie, France
On August 6, 1981, around 1 a.m., a person takes photographs of the starry sky from the parking lot of the Col de Joux pass. The weather is clear, without clouds, but in the distance a few heat lightning flashes occasionally appear. Their camera is set on a tripod, and each photo is taken with an exposure time of one minute and thirty seconds. During development, the witness notices the presence in their photographs of a luminous phenomenon that they did not see at the time of shooting. This object is located in a halo to the left of the star Arcturus. A star chart for that day and that hour indeed clearly shows Arcturus in the constellation Boötes. But no other information allows identifying the photographed phenomenon.
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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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