Loire, France · 1979-03-15 · from the GEIPAN archive
An orange orb in Loire, France
On March 15, 1979, at around 7:25 a.m., five people working on the repair of a railway track noticed a luminous phenomenon that intrigued them. An orange glow the size of a football slowly crossed the sky from East to West on a descending trajectory. The observation, which lasted about 30 seconds, made it possible to note the presence of a trail of white smoke. No noise was heard. The object disappeared, hidden by the landscape. These people were probably witnesses to an atmospheric re-entry which, given the observation time, could be space debris.
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…
On June 3, 1979, at around 11:30 PM, a female motorist observed in her rearview mirror a glowing orange ball that seemed to follow her until she reached a built-up area, where, frightened, s…
On December 6, 1979, between 9:15 PM and 9:30 PM, several people saw luminous phenomena in the sky that intrigued them. A white luminous mass seemed to move from west to east, then 5 orange …
GEIPAN continues to publish all of its archives on its public website www.geipan.fr. Among its publications are old cases classified at the time (A, B, C or D) which are now being re-examine…
On June 15, 1979, around 11 p.m., several people saw an orange glow on the horizon that intrigued them. This glow, to the northwest, seemed to consist of several points of light. The observa…
On November 21, 1979, a witness saw, about 100 meters from her, an object fitted with several lights, including three red ones and one orange one forming a diamond shape on the vertical plan…
both described an orange orb
Has this happened to you?
Write it down while you still remember the details. We will look for the others.
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