Calvados, France · 1980-08-19 · from the GEIPAN archive
On August 19, 1980 at around 9:30 PM, a group of young people observed a luminous mass moving slowly and swaying in the sky. This light-colored object had a rounded, luminous upper part. It was at the altitude of light aircraft flights and was moving in a north-south direction. Suddenly the object caught fire and fell abruptly, leading the witnesses to assume that the object had crashed not far from there, but without being able to specify the exact location. The gendarmerie later found part of the object hanging from a tree. The debris made it possible to confirm that the object was a hot-air balloon made of tissue paper and wire, built by an amateur. The owner of the object was never found.
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