Gironde, France · 1979-11-01 · from the GEIPAN archive
Red lights in Gironde, France
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 the sky without making any noise. This object had a southwest-to-northeast trajectory. One of the witnesses mentioned a trail of fire behind the object. No further information was collected on this phenomenon, for which we lack data.
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…
On August 15, 2016, at around 12:30 a.m., a witness is astonished to see a luminous phenomenon in the clear sky: three white lights in a triangle and a red light in the center move continuou…
In the night of December 31, 2009 to January 1, 2010 at 12:30 a.m., a witness is intrigued by the slow west-to-north movement in the sky of a red ball with a yellow outline. The phenomenon i…
On March 4, 2015 at around 8:15 PM, a witness notices that in the sky there is a circle of off-white color as big and bright as the moon. The object is above the trees, surrounded by two thi…
On Saturday, September 17, 2011, at around 11 p.m., a witness on their balcony is intrigued by the passage of an object they first take for a plane on fire heading toward Bordeaux-Mérignac a…
On May 10, 1981, witnesses saw an unusual luminous phenomenon around 8:30 p.m. A red ball high in the sky seemed to descend slowly and land. Suddenly an intense light burst from a triangle, …
On October 28, 1978, at around 7:10 PM, several witnesses observed the rapid passage from East to West of a luminous phenomenon in the sky. The witnesses describe a fireball with a luminous …
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On December 26, 1978 at around 10:45 p.m., a witness observed the movements of a luminous object in the sky. Passing through a cloud, this object emitted a luminous phenomenon and rose at ra…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On March 29, 2008, at around 9:30 PM, several witnesses observed a luminous phenomenon in the sky for 3 seconds. A very bright yellow ball moved at high speed from the southwest to the north…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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This is an official case file of GEIPAN, the French space agency's unidentified aerospace phenomena office, machine translated from French. The original text and the full investigation file are at geipan.fr. We reproduce it with thanks and remove anything on request.
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