An account in Gers, France

GEIPAN continues to publish all of its archives on its public website www.geipan.fr. Among its publications are old cases classified at the time as type "C" cases, which are now being re-examined, for the sole purpose of being more relevant in the conclusions. Thanks to new technical means (software) and the investigative experience acquired over all these recent years, this re-examination sometimes leads to new remarks or even a change of classification explained in an investigation note. This observation case is one of the cases classified as "C" in 1991 by SEPRA and previously named JEGUN (32) after the gendarmerie brigade. On August 6, 1991 at 12:15 AM, the JEGUN (32) gendarmerie was notified by a couple of witnesses living in Saint-Lary (32) of the presence of a particular glow in the sky. The duty officer also saw the phenomenon starting at 12:35 AM and observed it carefully, using binoculars, until 1:29 AM. This case is consistent (three witnesses, including a gendarme), and the description of the observed UAP is fairly precise. The sincerity and credibility of the witnesses have never been called into question. The described phenomenon presents many common characteristics (observation duration, size, color) with a perfectly known astronomical object: Capella. Moreover, this star presents a color perfectly consistent with that of the UAP. It is not the visual perception of the witnesses that is in question, but the interpretation that the witnesses make of their observation through their feelings (astonishment, fatigue, nighttime observation). In GEIPAN's current classification, this case of low strangeness is classified as UAP A, an observation linked to a misidentification with the star Capella.