Rhône, France · 1980-09-05 · from the GEIPAN archive
On the night of September 5, a little girl got up to close the window of her bedroom, which had been opened by a gust of wind. She saw a luminous object outside in the sky, about 100 meters from her home. The object was half-rounded, giving off a very bright yellow-orange light. It was stationary about 150 meters above the ground. Several times, the craft went out, leaving a light on at each end. The observation lasted about half an hour without the object touching the ground, then it went out for good. The child made no further observations, and no other testimony was collected on this phenomenon, for which we lack data.
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