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Auvergne-Rh�ne-Alpes, France · 1978-12-09 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Auvergne-Rh�ne-Alpes, France

On December 10, 1978, starting at 6:40 a.m., several witnesses, including police officers, observed a particular luminous phenomenon in the sky to the West. This phenomenon seemed to have a pendular and ascending movement. It gradually diminished and disappeared around 9:30 a.m. These witnesses had made an observation of the planet Venus.

 

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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.