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Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France · 1977-05-11 · from the GEIPAN archive

Red lights in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France

On May 11, 1977, between 10:05 PM and 10:25 PM, several people observed the presence in the sky of two objects moving silently and emitting a bright red glow intermittently. The witnesses also noted that these objects emitted a white glow toward the ground. The gendarmerie investigation determined that two "PUMA-SA/330" aircraft from the Cannet-des-Maures (83) training base had carried out a night flight performing exercises (including ground lighting) in the witnesses' residential area.

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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.