Calvados, France · 1979-09-08 · from the GEIPAN archive
An orange orb in Calvados, France
On September 8, 1979, at around 4:30 a.m., two witnesses observed from their bedroom the passage of a circular object in the sky. It was moving at high speed while losing altitude. A glowing orange halo surrounded the object. Wanting to open the window, one of the witnesses received an electric shock. No other testimony was collected on this phenomenon, and the EDF power station reported no anomaly on its lines. These people probably witnessed an atmospheric reentry. The episode of the electric shock received by one of the witnesses, even though it happened at the time of the observation, cannot be directly linked to the type of phenomenon observed.
On January 12, 1979, at around 7:30 PM, a person sighted in the sky a particular luminous phenomenon to the North-Northeast. For 20 minutes, the witness, equipped with binoculars, observed a…
On June 3, 1979, at around 11:30 PM, a female motorist observed in her rearview mirror a glowing orange ball that seemed to follow her until she reached a built-up area, where, frightened, s…
On December 6, 1979, between 9:15 PM and 9:30 PM, several people saw luminous phenomena in the sky that intrigued them. A white luminous mass seemed to move from west to east, then 5 orange …
On March 15, 1979, at around 7:25 a.m., five people working on the repair of a railway track noticed a luminous phenomenon that intrigued them. An orange glow the size of a football slowly c…
GEIPAN continues to publish all of its archives on its public website www.geipan.fr. Among its publications are old cases classified at the time (A, B, C or D) which are now being re-examine…
On June 15, 1979, around 11 p.m., several people saw an orange glow on the horizon that intrigued them. This glow, to the northwest, seemed to consist of several points of light. The observa…
both described an orange orb
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