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Côtes-d'Armor, France · 1978-01-14 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Côtes-d'Armor, France

On January 14, 1978, between 5:57 a.m. and 6:45 a.m., several people observed, for a few seconds, significant red-orange glows illuminating the entire surroundings. Two luminous orange and blue balls were seen by a motorist 500 meters in front of his vehicle. We lack more precise information about this phenomenon.

 

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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.