Nouvelle-Calédonie, France · 1973------ · from the GEIPAN archive
One evening in 1973 around 11 p.m., a child with his parents observed multicolored lights above Magenta Bay in Nouméa. These lights were stationary above the sea. Thinking it was an aircraft movement, the witnesses were very astonished, passing in front of the aerodrome, to note that it was completely closed. After investigation the next day, no aircraft or helicopter movement had been made across the whole island. The witness mentions other people having made similar observations that same night, but no other information was collected on this phenomenon, for which we lack information.
On May 26, 1978, between 2:00 and 2:15 a.m., a witness observed from their home the various movements of several lights of varied colors above their village. These lights stopped as soon as …
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On January 7, 1978 at around 4:50 a.m., a witness traveling on a moped saw three very bright lights at ground level. One of these very powerful lights separated from the group, approached th…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On November 10, 2009 at around 8:30 PM, a witness observed a large circular light in the clouds. A plane seemed to turn to avoid the light, which suddenly disappeared. The witness did not wi…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
There are thousands more like this in the record. Open one at random, or read the ones the most people recognise.
Read anotherMost recognisedOr if something like this happened to you, write it down and we will look for the others who saw it too.
If this reminds you of something a friend or a relative told you once and never mentioned again, send them this page. Reading that a stranger described the same thing is usually the part that helps.
Nothing is tracked back to you and nothing is sent on your behalf. The link is just the page you are reading.
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.
Anomaly