Moselle, France · 1976-08-27 · from the GEIPAN archive
On August 27, 1976, at around 9:16 PM, a witness who was an amateur astronomer noticed once again, in the cloudy sky, an object that intrigued him. He had another person observe the passage of a circular device emitting a noticeably orange light from the rear. During the investigation, the witness provided a precise description, a diagram of the observed object, and the trajectory. No other testimony was collected. It is likely that this witness successively made observations of an aircraft.
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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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