Isère, France · 1979-07-15 · from the GEIPAN archive
A witness reported in 2011 an old sighting. He does not remember the exact year and month (between 1979 and 1980, between mid-July and mid-August, in the late afternoon). The date of the case is given arbitrarily. Observing the landscape with an astronomical telescope, the witness is intrigued by a motionless object, triangular in shape, light rusty orange in color. The object is quickly hidden by mist and a cloud. The observation lasted less than 30 seconds. The triangular shape of the object and its slight movement suggest a tetrahedral balloon. Some weather balloons are brown-orange in color; the witness describes it as rusty in color. But the details of the object's surface described by the witness do not fit well with this hypothesis. Since the exact date is not known, it is not possible to check winds or balloon launches by Météo-France or the CNES. For lack of precise information, this case is classified "C".
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