Puy-de-Dôme, France · 1997-08-09 · from the GEIPAN archive
On August 9, 1997 at around 10:40 p.m., a witness who was observing the sky with his nephew was intrigued by the passage of a very bright luminous point moving slowly. The duration of the observation was on the order of 30 to 40 seconds. The observation was silent. We have only little information available, but we can assume that the witness probably saw the passage of an aircraft or a satellite.
On July 24 at around 10:30 p.m., a witness observed the passage of a very bright luminous ball with a trail. The observation remained completely silent and lasted about 3 seconds. The descri…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On August 6, 1998 at around 10:40 p.m., a man in a car is listening to music and looking at the sky. He then observes a luminous shape moving rapidly in a south-north direction. The observat…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On May 7, 1994, at around 9:30 p.m., three witnesses observed a particularly bright luminous point moving very slowly in the sky. This observation, which lasted several dozen minutes, is lik…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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