AnomalyOn 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.
Haute-Garonne, France · 1979-07-23 · from the GEIPAN archive
An account in Haute-Garonne, France
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