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Haute-Garonne, France · 1993-09-27 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Haute-Garonne, France

On September 27, 1993, the owner of a house noticed in his yard a regular circle about 8 meters in diameter, at the edge of which the grass was laid down regularly outward over a width of 30 cm. The center of the circle was occupied by an automatic sprinkler nozzle. It should be noted that a violent storm had flooded the yard in the preceding days, and that electrical disturbances occurred during that storm, specifically on the fuse that powers the automatic sprinkler. A quick analysis by SEPRA led to favoring the hypothesis of the untimely opening of the sprinkler nozzle, which caused watering without pressure for a certain time, creating the observed phenomenon.

 

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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.