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Loiret, France · 1979-12-02 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Loiret, France

On December 2, 1979 at around 6:30 PM, a couple of witnesses observed 8 craft the size of an airplane emitting a whistling sound. These objects emitted flashing lights, red, green, blue, and yellow. These objects moved slowly and the observation lasted about 20 minutes. The investigation did not make it possible to identify the origin of these phenomena.

 

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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.