Nord, France · 1979-09-23 · from the GEIPAN archive
On September 23, 1979, at around 6 a.m., several people observed in the sky a luminous point moving without noise in a northeast direction. This point emitted green and red colors. A few moments later, the witnesses' car was flooded with a light that covered the entire roadway. Suddenly the light went out, and one of the witnesses saw a shape rise at 45 degrees into the sky, without any noise but leaving behind it a red flame. The on-site investigation revealed no clues, and no further information was gathered about this phenomenon, which remains unexplained.
On November 1, 1979, at around 6:15 PM, several witnesses observed a red luminous phenomenon in the sky. According to the witnesses, it consisted of one to two red balls that moved across th…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On February 21, 1984, at around 7:15 a.m., a witness in a car spots three red luminous points in the sky. Getting out of his car and for one minute, he observes a triangle formed by three re…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On June 30, 1979 at around 11:30 PM, motorists were driving on a secondary road when they spotted a glowing light in the sky. A luminous point, at first stationary, gradually moved, drawing …
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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