Meurthe-et-Moselle, France · 1977-01-16 · from the GEIPAN archive
An orange orb in Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
On January 16, 1977 at 8:15 PM, a motorist and his passenger observed the movements of a luminous orange ball with a diameter of about 15 cm. It was located at an altitude of about 2,000 meters. No trail and no noise were visible during the observation. The object gradually went out three times before quickly relighting. The object disappeared very quickly.
On August 27, 1976, at around 9:16 PM, a witness who was an amateur astronomer noticed once again, in the cloudy sky, an object that intrigued him. He had another person observe the passage …
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On October 15, 1978 at around 6:50 p.m., several people aboard a vehicle observed two lights and a fixed red light above the trees at the edge of the road. Continuing on their way, they saw …
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On November 6, 1978, at around 7:30 a.m., three people observed the slow movement of a luminous object that intrigued them. No noise was heard during the observation of this orange-colored o…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On January 3, 2009 at 8:10 PM, a motorist and his passenger observed the rapid fall of a very bright yellow luminous point with no trail behind the phenomenon. It quickly disappeared behind …
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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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.
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