Moselle, France · 1979-12-03 · from the GEIPAN archive
On December 3, 1979, at around 4:50 p.m., two witnesses observed a triangular-shaped object emitting two trails of red smoke. As it passed over a radio tower, the object stopped for a few seconds before moving on. The witnesses followed it with their eyes until it was out of sight, with the red smoke visible until the end of the observation. A third witness observed a very bright point at the same time, but it was not possible to make a correlation between the two observations. The investigation did not identify any air traffic corresponding to the observations, and this case remains unexplained.
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