Maine-et-Loire, France · 1979-01-02 · from the GEIPAN archive
On January 12, 1979, at around 7:30 PM, a person sighted in the sky a particular luminous phenomenon to the North-Northeast. For 20 minutes, the witness, equipped with binoculars, observed a fireball of orange color, the size of a fist. No noise was heard. The phenomenon disappeared into the clouds. No other testimony was collected on this phenomenon, for which we lack information.
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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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