Haute-Garonne, France · 1976-09-17 · from the GEIPAN archive
On September 17, 1976, between 8:15 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., several people observed the silent movement of a luminous phenomenon of spherical shape. Some witnesses noted changes in colors. The gendarmerie investigation quickly determined that it was the passage of a stratospheric balloon from the National Center for Space Studies, released at Air-Sur-Adour (40) to carry out measurements at high altitude. The color changes were produced by the diffraction of the light of the setting sun, while atmospheric movements caused optical distortions of the contours of the object.
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