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Rhône, France · 1999-08-19 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Rhône, France

On August 19, 1999 at 1 a.m., two gendarmes on surveillance duty observe in the sky a very bright luminous point with three blue-green and red luminous points spinning very fast around it. The phenomenon occasionally has a pendular movement. No other information on this observation lasting about 20 minutes.

 

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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.