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Nord, France · 1977-10-02 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Nord, France

On October 2, 1977, at the end of the day, a female farmer in a field was overflown for a very brief moment by a luminous spherical object. Other people observed an unusual glow at the end of the field where the farmer was located. The gendarmerie, notified three days later, found no trace on the ground in the area indicated by the witnesses, and no other testimony was collected that could provide further 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.