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Cantal, France · 1977-10-18 · from the GEIPAN archive

An orange orb in Cantal, France

On October 18, 1977 at 12:24 a.m., a witness observed for 4 minutes a luminous point in the sky that approached, made a wide curve while losing altitude, and seemed to stop above a hill. The witness says he then saw the dark mass of a craft with a circular porthole emitting a bright blue and orange light. After ten seconds, it disappeared instantly. Despite the gendarmerie investigation, 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.