Vend�e, France · 1980-02-24 · from the GEIPAN archive
An orange orb in Vend�e, France
On February 24, 1980 at around 3:15 a.m., a group of young people noticed an orange glow through the fir trees toward the beach. Moving to get a better view, they then saw a very large object in the direction of the island of Yeu that was three-quarters spherical, orange in color, and without shine. This craft moved vertically at a very slow and steady speed. The observation, which lasted about ten minutes, ended when the object slowly sank into the ocean, leaving a whitish glow visible. No noise was heard. At around 3:05 a.m., a police officer on patrol also saw a hemispherical object, larger than a quarter moon, reddish-orange in color and without shine. This object moved slowly and descended vertically without changing shape or color. All these people made an astronomical observation of the moon setting (at 3:12 a.m. exactly), which accounts for the size and orange color observed. In addition, the moon was in its first quarter, which gave it the appearance of a half disk turned downward.
On March 3, 1980 between 8:30 PM and 8:45 PM, a couple driving in a car observed an orange ball the size of the setting sun. A little later, they no longer saw this ball but they noted the p…
On January 1, 1980, several military personnel on duty sighted a luminous phenomenon in the sky on three occasions. A small orange ball appeared suddenly and successively at 11:16 PM, 11:33 …
On the night of September 5, a little girl got up to close the window of her bedroom, which had been opened by a gust of wind. She saw a luminous object outside in the sky, about 100 meters …
On December 12, 1980, at around 5 a.m., a female motorist saw an orange light in her rearview mirror. About 300 meters away in the forest, an oval-shaped object emitted flashing lights that …
On January 24, 1980, between 6:05 p.m. and 6:25 p.m., a witness claims to have observed the arrival and departure of an unidentified flying object. At the beginning of his observation, he de…
GEIPAN continues to publish all of its archives on its website: www.cnes-geipan.fr. Among its publications are old cases classified at the time (A, B, C or D) which are now being re-examined…
both described an orange orb
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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.
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