France, France · 1978-12-11 · from the GEIPAN archive
Vanishing suddenly in France, France
On December 11, 1978, witnesses in several departments observed a luminous phenomenon moving at high speed in the sky without any noise being heard. A trail was also seen. This phenomenon disappeared suddenly. These people probably observed an atmospheric reentry.
On February 26, 1978, at around 2:30 in the morning, several people observed a shiny silver shape in the sky. The witnesses speak of a luminous explosion. This phenomenon disappeared instant…
On June 7, 1978, between 7:30 and 8:00 PM, three fishermen aboard a boat observed for several minutes a luminous phenomenon that intrigued them. A white light moved slowly along the coast, t…
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 g…
On November 24, 1980 at around 10:20 PM, a motorist saw a whitish luminous point in the clear sky for one second. It moved from west to east along a straight trajectory and was located betwe…
This incident involved hearing and smelling what my brothers and I can only describe as Bigfoot. It happened on my Grandparents property when I was approx. 14 years old. Our Grandparents had…
My husband and I attended the BFRO expedition in West Virginia in Spring of 2005. The base camp was next to a river in the mountains near the Virginia border. On Thursday afternoon most of t…
On March 29, 2008, at around 9:30 PM, several witnesses observed a luminous phenomenon in the sky for 3 seconds. A very bright yellow ball moved at high speed from the southwest to the north…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On October 28, 1978, at around 7:10 PM, several witnesses observed the rapid passage from East to West of a luminous phenomenon in the sky. The witnesses describe a fireball with a luminous …
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On the morning of November 8, 1978, several witnesses located in different departments observed the rapid passage of a luminous phenomenon in the sky. According to the witnesses' description…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared 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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