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Maine-et-Loire, France · 1979-07-10 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Maine-et-Loire, France

On July 10 at around 3 a.m., a witness observed through his window a luminous mass moving diagonally from north to east. Round or ovoid in shape and yellow in color, this object was observed for 10 to 15 minutes before disappearing. No noise was heard. This person probably observed the passage of a Transit or Oscar type satellite, and not Skylab, which had no longer been visible in France since the end of June.

 

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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.