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Isère, France · 1979-05-14 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Isère, France

On May 14, 1979, around 1 p.m., several people observed a bright object in a clear, windless sky. The object was oval-shaped and silver-colored; it moved slowly while oscillating on a north-south trajectory and gradually lost altitude. Appearing to fall behind a hill, one of the witnesses went to look for it and would see the object rise rapidly and disappear. No noise was heard by the witnesses. These people probably saw a balloon, although this hypothesis was not formally proven.

 

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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.