Manche, France · 1979-03-22 · from the GEIPAN archive
On March 22 at around 11 p.m., a witness observed at high altitude an orange ball the size of a football. It moved horizontally in a rapid back-and-forth motion; it then moved vertically while emitting green reflections. The same phenomenon occurred again the next day at the same place and at the same time. No other testimony was collected on this phenomenon, for which we lack information.
What stood out: an orange orb
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the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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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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