Bouches-du-Rhône, France · 1981-11-01 · from the GEIPAN archive
On November 1, 1981, at around 11 a.m., several witnesses spotted a flying object moving slowly toward the sea. This object, gray in color, was cylindrical in shape and measured about 4 meters long. No noise was heard while the craft moved. The investigation established that it was an advertising balloon launched by children from the terrace of the "Le Corbusier" building, about 300 meters from the observation site.
On October 9, 1981, at around 5 a.m., a person spotted from their garden a flying object of cylindrical shape. It was about 100 meters away, and the witness described it as measuring 1.50 me…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On the last Wednesday of January 1977, a witness observed from the first floor of a dwelling a flying object in the sky at an altitude of 500 m. This object, shaped like a rugby ball, was im…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On July 20, 1979, at around 10 a.m., several people observed a particular bright shape in the sky for about twenty minutes. Depending on the witnesses' location, this ovoid object measured b…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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