Gard, France · 1977-02-09 · from the GEIPAN archive
Vanishing suddenly in Gard, France
On February 9, 1977 at around 6:50 p.m., several people noticed the presence in the sky of a strange glow in the southeast direction, right at the mountain ridge line. First motionless, this spherical-shaped glow then gradually rose while changing color and disappeared suddenly. Called by phone, the gendarmes from their station observed neither an abnormal glow nor any noise regarding this phenomenon, for which we lack information.
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