AnomalyOn April 21, 1980 at 11:55 AM, a witness heard a whistling sound and was frightened by a burst of fire and the fall, a few meters from him, of an object coming from the northwest. He heard no impact noise and saw no smoke. This gardener described the object as being the size of a bucket, with a diameter of 20 cm, and having the colors of the rainbow. The police officers called to the scene observed traces on the ground: over a circle 100 m in diameter, the ground was covered with a whitish powder and the grass was burned. No impact trace such as a crater was present on the ground. The next day, a metallic piece was found. No trace of the analysis results was found in the GEIPAN archives, which leads us to a Class C classification pending the recovery of these pieces.
Loire-Atlantique, France · 1980-04-21 · from the GEIPAN archive
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