Saône-et-Loire, France · 1994-03-16 · from the GEIPAN archive
This observation case is one of the cases classified as "C" by SEPRA, under the name EPINAC (71) 16.03.1994: it is currently being re-examined (see the document Investigation Notes). On March 16, 1994, at 8:10 PM or 8:30 PM, in TINTRY (71), a person walking home on foot noticed the appearance of a milky cloud in front of them, revealing three times, for a few seconds, a large luminous orange crescent. No other testimony was collected during the gendarmerie investigation. This case has little substance (single witness), the description of the observed UAP is fairly precise. The sincerity and credibility of the witness have never been questioned. The described phenomenon presents many common characteristics (observation duration, shape, size, color) with a perfectly known astronomical object: the crescent Moon, seen through a cloud layer. Moreover, the Moon was indeed present in the area of sky observed. It is not the witness's visual perception that is in question, but the interpretation the witness makes of their observation through their subjective experience (fatigue, partial observation of the Moon through a cloud). In the current GEIPAN classification, this case of low strangeness is classified "A," observation linked to a misidentification with the Moon.
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