Bas-Rhin, France · 1979-01-03 · from the GEIPAN archive
On January 3, 1979, two people observe at 6:50 a.m. a bright object at low altitude in the direction of south-southeast. Hemispherical and accompanied by a shower of sparks, this object will move gradually and without noise before disappearing in a southerly direction. These people probably made an astronomical observation of Venus, particularly visible in the sky at that period (magnitude 4.46), according to the sky chart. A motorist driving around 7 p.m. will see the same day another flying object. For 3 to 4 seconds, he sees a ball moving silently at very high altitude and on a north-south trajectory. This person probably saw a weather balloon, but we lack information on this latter object.
On May 30, 1979, two people observe in the sky, for 20 minutes, a particular phenomenon. An object shaped like a flattened rugby ball crosses the sky in a southeast-to-northwest direction. T…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On July 25, 2009, around 7 p.m., several witnesses observed the passage of a white flying object. One of the intrigued witnesses described a white ball moving silently through the valley fro…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On May 16, 1978 at 9:15 PM, two people saw in the sky an object of spherical shape moving very quickly in a north-northwest direction. This object was extremely bright. No other testimony ab…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
There are thousands more like this in the record. Open one at random, or read the ones the most people recognise.
Read anotherMost recognisedOr if something like this happened to you, write it down and we will look for the others who saw it too.
If this reminds you of something a friend or a relative told you once and never mentioned again, send them this page. Reading that a stranger described the same thing is usually the part that helps.
Nothing is tracked back to you and nothing is sent on your behalf. The link is just the page you are reading.
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.
Anomaly