Haute-Garonne, France · 1979-07-23 · from the GEIPAN archive
On July 23, 1979 at around 9:40 PM, a female driver and her passengers observed for several minutes a peculiar object that intrigued them. This luminous orange object, shaped like a cigar two meters long, moved rapidly in a southeast-to-northwest direction. Flying 200 meters above the ground, it seemed to rotate on itself. It disappeared quickly at the horizon. No other testimony was collected on this phenomenon, for which we lack data.
Around 6 a.m. on April 12, 1982, several witnesses claim to have seen a luminous phenomenon in the sky. Oval in shape and orange in color, an object flies at very high altitude but very slow…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On November 20, 1976, at around 7:30 PM, people observed in the sky a round, luminous object that intrigued them. This object seemed to rotate on itself, and a glow was visible intermittentl…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On March 3 and 7, 1980, several people observed unusual and distinct luminous phenomena. On March 3 at 10:15 PM, a female driver and her daughter were suddenly blinded by a red light coming …
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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