AnomalyOn October 9, 1954, at around 8 p.m., three farmers observe for 45 minutes in the sky an orange disk shaped like an upside-down plate. It disappears toward the northwest. The observation is reported briefly in an intelligence message from the national gendarmerie. The duration of the observation and the described shape suggest certain misidentifications with the Moon. The Moon is indeed present in the sky but to the southeast and at almost 30 degrees of elevation, which does not correspond at all to the context of the observation. GEIPAN classifies this case as C due to lack of information.
Somme, France · 1954-10-09 · from the GEIPAN archive
An account in Somme, France
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