Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France · 1982-07-03 · from the GEIPAN archive
On July 3, 1982, a witness saw from his kitchen window an orange ball 20 cm in diameter that was scintillating. The weather was very stormy and this ball was located in front of a cloud formation that was arriving over the area. During the observation, which lasted more than a minute, this ball kept the same trajectory and was moving rapidly. The phenomenon disappeared suddenly. No other information was collected about this phenomenon.
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