AnomalyOn October 6, 1978, two witnesses observed for 15 minutes a luminous phenomenon they could not explain. These people described an abnormal pink glow moving slowly about 7 to 8 meters above the ground. No sound was heard during the observation. The gendarmes who arrived quickly at the scene could not observe the phenomenon, which had disappeared. No other observation of this phenomenon was reported. The transition between woods and cultivated field is conducive to atmospheric turbulence phenomena of a thermal nature causing a distortion of the observed object: at the time and in the direction indicated that evening, these people probably observed this type of phenomenon in relation to the moonset, then in its first quarter and very low on the horizon.
Ain, France · 1978-10-06 · from the GEIPAN archive
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