On September 17, 1978 at around 7:50 p.m., several people observe in the sky a luminous streak moving slowly at an unspecified altitude. No noise is heard during the observation. Despite the gendarmerie investigation, the brief testimonies concerning this phenomenon provide us with little information. The case is classified C.
C�te-d'Or, France · 1978-09-17 · from the GEIPAN archive
An account in C�te-d'Or, France
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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.