Paris, France · 1979-12-12 · from the GEIPAN archive
Vanishing suddenly in Paris, France
On December 12, 1979, a night watchman observed in the sky an object shaped like a flying saucer, slightly domed in the middle and tapering toward the edges. The color of the object was orange. A trail of purple and orange was visible behind the object. It disappeared suddenly and at very high speed toward the horizon. No other testimony was collected about this phenomenon, for which we lack information.
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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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