AnomalyAround 8:35 PM on February 15, 1980, a witness observed a luminous sphere toward the southwest. It was located just above a building. Leaning against a wall to watch the phenomenon with binoculars, the witness was able to note the presence of two balls. These, one red and one white located above the first, moved without shifting position. The position of the two balls reversed, and the whole thing disappeared after tracing a fairly wide "Z" in the sky. The observation lasted about 10 minutes in a perfectly clear sky. No other witness to this phenomenon, for which we lack data, came forward to the gendarmerie. This witness probably made an astronomical observation of Venus (magnitude -4) very low on the horizon, which disappears into the urban landscape.
Vosges, France · 1980-02-15 · from the GEIPAN archive
An account in Vosges, France
Has this happened to you?
Write it down while you still remember the details. We will look for the others.
Tell us what you sawKnow someone this happened to?
If this reminds you of something a friend or a relative told you once and never mentioned again, send them this page. Reading that a stranger described the same thing is usually the part that helps.
Nothing is tracked back to you and nothing is sent on your behalf. The link is just the page you are reading.
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.