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Gironde, France · 1977-10-12 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Gironde, France

On October 12, 1977 at 5:45 a.m., a motorist observed in the sky an object surrounded by an orange halo, with vibrations or oscillations. No other testimony about this phenomenon was collected by the gendarmerie or the Floirac observatory (33). Although the testimony is very brief, this person probably observed the rising sun (which rose that day at 5:20 a.m.) through a cloud.

 

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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.