AnomalyOn April 11, 1953 at 9:10 PM, three witnesses at an Air Force warehouse observed the silent east-west movement of a large orange-red point. The captain described a phenomenon that made a round trip over 45 degrees of the sky in 6 minutes along an irregular broken line forming angles of 15 degrees relative to the axis of movement. The 180-degree turn was also made through successive heading changes. The heading changes occurred every second. The other two witnesses followed the phenomenon for two to three minutes. The phenomenon was finally lost from sight. Only one testimony was collected. This phenomenon does not match any known misidentification. GEIPAN classifies this case as D1: strange unidentified phenomenon.
Haute-Vienne, France · 1953-04-11 · from the GEIPAN archive
An account in Haute-Vienne, France
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