Grand Est, France · 1980-08-05 · from the GEIPAN archive
An account in Grand Est, France
On August 5, 1980 at around 11 p.m., people observe the passage of a craft in the sky from East to West. Elongated in shape, this craft emits a central light. It suddenly changes direction to go due South, then due East. Later that same evening, other passages of this type will be noted by the witnesses. On August 6 at around 11:45 p.m., the flight of a craft heading toward the Northeast is spotted. No other testimony will be collected. The Basel/Mulhouse airport reports numerous airplane flights that evening. The witnesses probably made an observation of an aircraft.
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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.