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Doubs, France · 1976-12-18 · from the GEIPAN archive

Red lights in Doubs, France

On December 18, 1976 at 5 a.m., a witness observed from his bedroom window a red glow and a dark mass moving in a north-south direction at low altitude. No noise was heard during the observation on this slightly foggy morning. No other testimony was collected for this observation, for which we lack information.

What stood out: red lightsa dark figure

 

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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.