Haut-Rhin, France · 1981-09-22 · from the GEIPAN archive
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 minute, the witness saw an object of elliptical shape with blurred outlines, having at its upper level a sort of dome. The object emitted a yellow-orange light. No other person in the vicinity witnessed this appearance, for which we lack information.
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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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