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Manche, France · 1979-04-27 · from the GEIPAN archive

Vanishing suddenly in Manche, France

On April 27, 1979 at around 11:30 PM, a witness observed for 30 seconds the passage from West to East of a gigantic orange-colored craft. It disappeared suddenly without leaving a trail. 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.