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Rhône, France · 1977-07-27 · from the GEIPAN archive

Hovering in Rhône, France

On July 27, 1977 at 3:55 a.m., people from the same family observe for one to two minutes three craft hovering below the cloud ceiling. They describe the craft as having a flared pyramidal shape with a rounded upper part. They emit a white light and colored light of variable intensity. They disappear silently and within a few seconds around 4 a.m., then reappear around 4:20 a.m. They then disappear for good into the clouds. No findings could be made by the gendarmerie, and no other testimony was collected.

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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.