Var, France · 1976-01-10 · from the GEIPAN archive
On January 10, 1976, between 7:50 and 8:50 a.m., two people observed a very bright spherical object above the horizon. The witnesses noted that the object remained stationary. It gradually became invisible with sunrise. The police, contacted quickly, observed no object in the sky that morning or the next morning. No other testimony was collected. Based on the descriptions gathered, the witnesses probably observed a weather balloon.
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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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