Ardennes, France · 1978-10-03 · from the GEIPAN archive
On October 3, 1978, at around 2 a.m., a person on a moped is startled by a strong glow above a woods. The witness then sees a cigar-shaped object, red-orange in color, surrounded by bright green. This object, motionless at 100 meters in the sky, dazzles the witness. The moped stops working. The object will disappear suddenly, accompanied by a faint humming. The moped works again, allowing the frightened witness to continue on his way. Another person testified to the recurrence of the passage of this kind of craft in the area, without giving 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.
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