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Isère, France · 1982-03-12 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Isère, France

On March 12, 1982 at around 6:30 a.m., a witness observed a very strong glow in the sky. Through binoculars he saw a ball with irregular shapes dotted with bright points; during the observation the object changed position and color. No other information could be gathered about this phenomenon.

 

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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.