Nièvre, France · 1979-12-05 · from the GEIPAN archive
On December 5, 1979, a witness observed around 5:40 p.m. a ball the size of an orange with an orange reflection. It moved while spinning on itself and alternately rising and falling. No noise was heard. The observation lasted a quarter of an hour before this ball disappeared toward the southeast at very high speed. The next day at the same time, this ball was visible again, but it changed size three times and disappeared toward the west. Only one other witness had seen a similar phenomenon a few months earlier.
On October 26, 1999 at around 6:45 a.m., a witness observed a ball the size of an orange attached to another ball the size of a walnut, stationary very far away and very high in the sky. The…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On July 3, 1982, a witness saw from his kitchen window an orange ball 20 cm in diameter that was scintillating. The weather was very stormy and this ball was located in front of a cloud form…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On February 7, 2002 at around 8 a.m., several independent witnesses observed the very rapid fall of an orange fireball. The observation was very brief (1 to 2 seconds): the ball had a trail …
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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