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Hauts-de-Seine, France · 1980-07-04 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Hauts-de-Seine, France

On July 4, 1980, shortly before 10:30 p.m., a witness observed in the sky a very bright orange-colored disk. This disk was accompanied on its right by a trail of smoke. The whole thing moved without making any noise. After less than a minute of observation, the disk disappeared, leaving in its place a yellow light. No other information was collected on this phenomenon, for which we lack information.

 

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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.