An account in Seine-Maritime, France

Recent testimony (Sept 2013) of an old observation (uncertainty on the date, day and month Oct/Nov). The witness recounts an observation made probably in October 1981 at around 11 PM and lasting 2 to 3 minutes (the date of Saturday 17 October is given arbitrarily). The witness, bored by a TV series, looks through the French window and is surprised to see 5 to 6 orange-red points located on the edge of a dark object passing slowly on a straight trajectory. After 1 to 2 minutes the UAP takes the reverse path then an ascending direction to disappear in a flash into the clear sky. The witness reports a color change (white) during the acceleration. No particular noise is heard during the observation. Another witness attended the scene and reports by email in January 2014 having seen to the West a garland of red bulbs positioned in a semicircle. The UAP disappears then reappears to leave at very high speed toward the NW in the sky. No other testimony has been collected on the phenomenon. The hypothesis of a misidentification with an agricultural or construction machine of particular and surprising configuration (a machine passing by and other than those of the owner who is in bed) is not totally excluded despite the late hour (11 PM in October or November). It was moreover the witness's first hypothesis. This hypothesis would conflict with the height of the lights described (4 or 5 m in the trees), and especially with the rapid disappearance of the UAP with a certain rise into the sky. The age of the observation and the uncertainty on the date (October or November 1981) make it impossible to explore this machine hypothesis. And for lack of another hypothesis, this observation remains strange. On the other hand, this is a testimony made more than 30 years later, therefore subject to imprecision or memory error. The second observer (spouse) describes a phenomenon of the same nature but with much less detail. The latter did not wish to testify (a short email sent to the investigator). The observers did not leave their house to approach the location, perceived at 30 or 35 m, where the UAP had moved. This was done the next day, a sign that the strangeness experienced was not very strong, nor even too strong or frightening because the witness indicates "not having been disturbed overmuch, even if aware of witnessing something astonishing." It is therefore an observation that remains strange because without explanation of probability greater than 20%. But it is also an observation that lacks consistency, namely information and reliability (30 years later, no precise date, an observer present who does not wish to testify). Consequently GEIPAN classifies it as C: lack of reliable information.