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Eure, France · 1989-01-15 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Eure, France

On January 15, 1989, shortly before 9:00 PM, after watching the weather forecast on television, which indicated that unusual observations of planets might be possible, a woman went outside with her children to observe the sky with high-magnification binoculars. She observed a bright luminous point that she described as a shimmering oval shape moving with a kind of "caterpillar" motion while shimmering. The gendarmes called to the scene saw a shimmering luminous point but could not determine a precise shape. It is likely that the witness observed a planet or a very bright star and that the reported effects were due to the movement of the high-magnification binoculars.

 

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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.