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Val-de-Marne, France · 1979-05-31 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Val-de-Marne, France

On May 31, 1979 at 12:40 AM, two people went to observe a luminous phenomenon due West in the sky. For several minutes, a bulky object shaped like a crescent and orange in color. Another object also appeared for a few moments. The sky chart that morning indicates due West the presence of Jupiter (magnitude -1.49), Pollux (magnitude 0.98), and a moonset (magnitude -9.51). These people made an astronomical observation of this group.

 

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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.