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Val-d'Oise, France · 1980-08-07 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Val-d'Oise, France

On August 7 at 9:40 PM and then at 10:45 PM, several witnesses saw a luminous phenomenon of a yellow-orange color pass over a radio station of the F.N.S base at Taverny. Each time it moved at very high speed while gaining altitude. No noise was noticed. At the scene, no trace on the vegetation was found. No other testimony 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.