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Haute-Vienne, France · 1978-07-22 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Haute-Vienne, France

On July 22, 1978 at around 11:45 PM, several people observed in the sky a very bright yellow-orange luminous phenomenon emitting rays. For 15 minutes, one witness observed the phenomenon with binoculars before it disappeared. Due to the direction of observation and the position of Venus, particularly visible at that time of year, it can be said that the witnesses made an astronomical observation.

 

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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.