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Aube, France · 1979-06-15 · from the GEIPAN archive

An orange orb in Aube, France

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 observation lasted about ten minutes before everything went out. That evening, a ground-to-air firing training exercise took place in the neighboring military camp located to the northwest of the witnesses' position, between 11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. These people witnessed the glows caused by these firings.

What stood out: an orange orb

 

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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.