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Yvelines, France · 1977-01-08 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Yvelines, France

On January 8, 1977 at 8:50 PM, a witness observed an intense light coming from an object that she did not see. No noise was heard during the brief observation. The object disappeared on a downward trajectory behind the houses toward the state forest. No trace and no other testimony could provide any further information about this phenomenon.

 

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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.