Savoie, France · 1980-08-23 · from the GEIPAN archive
On August 23, 1980 at around 9:30 a.m., a witness saw a flash of light from her home. She then made an observation that intrigued her: a spherical, very bright flying object was moving across the sky. As it approached a mountain range, the object tilted onto its edge, turned red, and quickly disappeared behind the landscape heading north. No other testimony was collected about this phenomenon, for which we lack information.
On May 16, 1978 at 9:15 PM, two people saw in the sky an object of spherical shape moving very quickly in a north-northwest direction. This object was extremely bright. No other testimony ab…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
On October 16, 1977 at 6 a.m., a witness observed from his balcony the movement from left to right of a bright object. Quickly gaining altitude, it disappeared into the sky. No other testimo…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
A witness briefly reports having observed on October 15, 1976 at around 5:55 p.m. the movement of a luminous object in the sky along a south-north trajectory. It then appeared to have the sh…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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