Vaucluse, France · 1955-06-05 · from the GEIPAN archive
On June 5, 1955 at 8:55 PM, three witnesses in Cavaillon observed for 20 seconds, looking west toward the Luberon massif, a luminous red-fire rectangle in the sky. First stationary, the phenomenon then moved very quickly, changing shape (half-moon then ball) toward the east. It shrank then disappeared. Astronomical verification rules out the Moon. The airplane hypothesis is abandoned. GEIPAN classifies this case as C due to lack of information and cross-corroboration.
This observation case is one of the cases classified as "C" in 2010 by GEIPAN. It was the subject of a new investigation (see the document: investigation notes). On October 8, 1978 at 10:20 …
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On October 2, 1977, between 9:50 PM and 10:00 PM, motorists in two different areas of the Sarthe department observed in the sky a luminous phenomenon they could not explain. The object was r…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On December 18, 1977, at around 1:20 a.m., about ten people in a hamlet in the municipality of Sainte-Cérotte (72) observed a red-orange phenomenon in the sky. The witnesses could not estima…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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