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Hautes-Pyrénées, France · 1981-09-05 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Hautes-Pyrénées, France

On September 5 and 6, 1981, the Lourdes police brigade took statements from people who had seen luminous objects in the sky. These objects moved at high speed and without noise at low altitude. The observation times were very short (5 seconds), which did not allow enough information to be gathered to put forward any hypothesis about the phenomena observed.

 

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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.