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Charente-Maritime, France · 1976-11-20 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Charente-Maritime, France

On November 20, 1976, at around 7:30 PM, people observed in the sky a round, luminous object that intrigued them. This object seemed to rotate on itself, and a glow was visible intermittently. It emitted sharp yellow-orange rays. The observation lasted a good quarter of an hour before the object disappeared on a downward trajectory. No other more precise testimony was collected on this phenomenon, for which we lack information.

 

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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.