Haute-Savoie, France · 1979-07-20 · from the GEIPAN archive
On July 20, 1979, at around 10 a.m., several people observed a particular bright shape in the sky for about twenty minutes. Depending on the witnesses' location, this ovoid object measured between 80 cm and 5 m in diameter and took on a metallic or black color. It was first stationary above a house, then rose and moved away gradually without any noise. According to the gendarmerie, no particular observation was reported from the airfields or bases in the region, and no advertising object flight had been made during that period. The witnesses' description of the object and its movement nevertheless remains very close to that of a balloon.
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