AnomalyOn January 29, 1979, between 8:30 PM and 8:45 PM, a witness observed, following a flash, a luminous point of orange color. At first stationary, this point began a slow descent toward the ground while growing larger. Then it took another direction to move off horizontally at very high speed and disappear. No noise was heard during the observation, which lasted about 2 to 3 minutes. A hypothesis put forward by the Florac observatory, contacted by the gendarmerie for this observation, was that of a "ball lightning" phenomenon, but we lack data to confirm or refute this hypothesis.
Gironde, France · 1979-01-29 · from the GEIPAN archive
An account in Gironde, France
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