Pyrénées-Orientales, France · 1981-09-19 · from the GEIPAN archive
On September 19, October 3, and October 27, 1981, witnesses sighted, in the same Franco-Spanish border area, a luminous object moving in the sky between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. The direction of this object for the three observations is north-south, and the color red is indicated by the three witnesses. The very thorough investigation by the gendarmes made it possible to rule out confusion with known aircraft passages or a celestial body, but did not make it possible to identify the phenomenon.
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