Yonne, France · 1976-06-06 · from the GEIPAN archive
Boom in Yonne, France
On June 6, 1976, at around 11:35 PM, a motorist observed for a few seconds the fall at constant speed of a luminous phenomenon and its explosion. No noise was heard. Thinking it was an aircraft accident, this witness informed the gendarmerie. The investigation would show that no aircraft had been reported missing. No other testimony would be collected about this phenomenon. The motorist was probably a witness to an atmospheric re-entry.
On January 7, 1988 at around 12:45 a.m., several witnesses were able to see a luminous phenomenon in a perfectly clear sky. White-orange in color and resembling a quarter moon, this phenomen…
On October 27, 1954, returning from a night shift, two gendarmes cycling with all lights off at around 5:15 a.m. exchanged a few words out loud about a white spot seen in the grass on the ri…
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the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On April 15, 1976, between 9:00 PM and 9:30 PM, a witness observed, for about two minutes, an orange luminous phenomenon. It remained stationary above the bell tower of a church located two …
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On November 15, 1977 at around 6:45 a.m., a witness on a moped suddenly spotted in the sky an elongated-shaped craft moving rapidly toward the northwest. A few moments later, the witness obs…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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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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