Indre, France · 1977-01-23 · from the GEIPAN archive
On January 23, 1977, at around 1:45 a.m., a witness observed in the distance an orange light that seemed to be coming in his direction. After waking other people, these witnesses saw glowing balls very close to one another and the size of a football. One of the objects drew their attention because it was made differently from the others: it was rectangular in shape and narrower at the rear, with lit openings. These objects moved without any noise. The hypothesis that they observed the flight of a transport aircraft (due to the presence of a military airfield at Châteauroux) could not be confirmed for lack of information.
What stood out: an orange orb
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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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