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Oise, France · 1980-01-03 · from the GEIPAN archive

Red lights in Oise, France

On the morning of January 3, 1980 at 8:05 a.m., a witness who was closing his shutters spotted a red ball in the sky. This ball disappeared behind clouds then reappeared in the sky. It moved irregularly and at a very fast speed. The trajectory given is southeast to northwest. Calling out to her neighbor, the latter did not see the described object. The witness having taken photographs, the gendarmes were able to see the negative, which showed a brown spot. To this day, the negative has not been found in the archives. No other testimony was collected on this phenomenon. The witness probably made an astronomical observation of the full moon, which at the indicated time was setting and was lit by the rising sun, giving the celestial body its red color.

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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.