Loiret, France · 2000-10-08 · from the GEIPAN archive
Pilot witness in Loiret, France
On October 8, 2000 at 17:04 UTC, the pilot and co-pilot of a flight bound for Grenoble, during the climb phase, observed the very rapid passage (a few tenths of a second) of a round object a few meters above the cockpit. The crew feared a collision of the object with the rear tail section. No balloon could be identified. The hypothesis of a large bird (goose) was also raised, but the investigation did not make it possible to identify this observation, which endangered the safety of the flight.
On January 7, 2000 at around 7:20 PM, the pilot of an airplane bound for Casablanca observed, at a short distance below his aircraft, two balloons, one blue and one white, carrying a load re…
On September 14, 1980 at 12:45 p.m., an air traffic controller on duty spots a particular phenomenon. Located directly above him, an object of black cylindrical shape is stationary. The obje…
On Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 3:30 PM, a witness piloting his plane, then located slightly above the Dreux airfield, made an evasive maneuver around an object shaped like a polygon with many …
On January 28, 1994 at 1:14 PM, the crew of an Air France Airbus A320-11 on the Nice-London route observed a phenomenon they could not explain. While flying over the Coulommiers region in Se…
On October 18, 2014 at around 10:25 PM, a witness (T1) and his wife (T2) are surprised to see an elongated orange shape pass silently over them in less than 4 seconds on a straight trajector…
On June 5, 2017 (not 2015 as mistakenly stated by the witness in the free text) between 11:58 a.m. and 12:03 p.m., a witness observes in the clear sky a phenomenon that intrigues them. The w…
On 27 June 2010 at 6:05 pm, a pilot and his co-pilot in flight Nouméa–Seoul on an Airbus 330 at 40,000 feet (12,500 meters) saw a very bright luminous point "at 1 o'clock" moving rapidly in …
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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.
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