AnomalyOn October 14, 1954, at around 5 p.m., four witnesses saw, in a southwest direction and at a height of 40 meters, a spherical device moving silently but at very high speed. The object had the colors of the rainbow. GEIPAN received a brief information sheet without the witnesses' testimony. The description of a spherical object at very high speed and multicolored suggests a bolide. This case, too brief, is classified as C due to lack of information.
Somme, France · 1954-10-14 · from the GEIPAN archive
An account in Somme, France
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