Vaucluse, France · 1977-08--- · from the GEIPAN archive
An account in Vaucluse, France
On September 18, 1977, between 10:30 p.m. and 10:35 p.m., two witnesses observed the passage from north-northeast to south-southwest of a luminous phenomenon of an orange-fire color. The witnesses had time to see a rectangular shape that quickly disappeared behind a hill. A third witness stated that on that day he had noticed nothing, but that three weeks earlier he had seen a significant light behind another hill. No other testimony was collected and no trace was discovered in the presumed areas where these phenomena disappeared, for which we lack information.
On October 21, 1977 at around 5:15 p.m., two witnesses observed the passage of an elongated object in the sky. Luminous and of several colors, the object moved, leaving behind it a glow that…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On December 7, 1977, at around 6:45 p.m., several people observed the passage of a luminous phenomenon in the sky. It moved from west to east without any particular noise being heard. The ph…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On January 12, 1979, at around 7:30 PM, a person sighted in the sky a particular luminous phenomenon to the North-Northeast. For 20 minutes, the witness, equipped with binoculars, observed a…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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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.