La Réunion, France · 1976-04-01 · from the GEIPAN archive
On April 1, 1976 at around 5:20 p.m., several people observed in the sky a white trail that seemed to plunge into the sea. They then saw a mass of gray smoke that persisted on the water for a quarter of an hour before disappearing completely. According to the gendarmerie investigation, no aircraft from the airport was in flight after 5 p.m. The investigation recovered no object or any debris whatsoever on the coastline. It is probable that the witnesses saw an object fall into the sea, but we lack information to identify it.
On September 4, 1978, at around 10 p.m., a group of people noticed a luminous object in the sky that intrigued them. This object, spherical in shape and white in color, moved at the speed of…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On January 25, 2009, at around 6:30 p.m., a motorist observed the passage of a red phenomenon with a long trail that lit up the sky. No sound was heard. The witness headed toward the beach, …
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On January 20, 2012 at around 8:25 a.m., a witness and her daughter noticed, in the clear sky above the Col de Blaux, the presence of an aerospace phenomenon that intrigued them. The witness…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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