Hautes-Pyrénées, France · 1976-09-05 · from the GEIPAN archive
On September 5, 1976, at around 7:22 a.m., a person observed from the 15th floor of their building a luminous phenomenon in the sky that intrigued them. For about ten minutes, the witness observed, in a southeasterly direction, the presence above the hills of Sarrouilles (65) of a red luminous line before it disappeared toward the east. No other testimony was collected about this phenomenon. The gendarmerie investigation revealed that the observation made on September 5 was probably directly related to the passage of a weather balloon that remained in the air after its payload was released in a field at Soues. The winds were calm on September 4 and 5, 1976, and the two towns are roughly located in the same direction, southeast of Tarbes.
On December 7, 1977, at around 6:45 p.m., several people observed the passage of a luminous phenomenon in the sky. It moved from west to east without any particular noise being heard. The ph…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On December 1, 1976, several witnesses observed the presence, above the horizon line, of a luminous and stationary object. The observation lasted 15 minutes before the object disappeared. No…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
In the night of July 16, 1976, a witness at 4:30 a.m. saw from a window of his home the passage of a luminous phenomenon without being able to clearly see a shape or hear any particular nois…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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