Pays de la Loire, France · 1982-06-10 · from the GEIPAN archive
Pilot witness in Pays de la Loire, France
On June 10, 1982, several people, including the staff of an airport control tower, saw a bright point in the sky. The investigation shows that pilots also saw this bright object and that it was probably a stratospheric balloon launched by CNES from the Gap site, drifting and moving at an altitude of 30 or 40,000 meters, pushed by the southwest winds after the release of its payload.
Thanks to new technical means (software) and the investigation experience acquired over all these recent years, this re-examination sometimes leads to new remarks or even a change of classif…
Locality: Turin
Date: 14/07/1982
Time: 11:57
Shape: Circular
Colour: Luminous source
Speed: Very high
Direction: From west towards east
Motion: Not known
Altitude: Approximately 10,000 metre…
Thanks to new technical means (software) and the investigation experience acquired over all these recent years, this re-examination sometimes leads to new remarks or even a change of classif…
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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.
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