Puy-de-Dôme, France · 1980-07-24 · from the GEIPAN archive
Buzzing in Puy-de-Dôme, France
On July 24, 1980, two witnesses returning home around 4:30 in the morning saw a very bright white ball in the sky. It emitted an intense light that lit up the countryside. This ball rose and headed north after making a right-angle maneuver. It then stopped moving, and the witnesses were able to observe this phenomenon for an hour despite the intense brightness that hurt their eyes. They went to bed but heard crackling sounds. The photographs taken by one of the witnesses could not be used: the film was declared "burned" by the photographer, who refused to develop it. One of the witnesses reports having seen this very bright white ball again that same day a little later. No other witness in the area came forward. No other information was gathered on this phenomenon, for which we lack information.
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