AnomalyOn October 9, 1977 at around 7:15 PM, two soldiers on duty observe in the sky the movements of an oval-shaped object moving north-south. The object rises and falls slowly, leaving a phosphorescent trail behind it. No sound is heard during the observation, which lasts between 5 and 7 minutes. A few years earlier, a similar observation had been reported: at the time, it involved weather balloons launched from the Istres air base (13).
Bouches-du-Rh�ne, France · 1977-10-09 · from the GEIPAN archive
An account in Bouches-du-Rh�ne, France
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