Essonne, France · 1980-09-14 · from the GEIPAN archive
Pilot witness in Essonne, France
On September 14, 1980 at 12:45 p.m., an air traffic controller on duty spots a particular phenomenon. Located directly above him, an object of black cylindrical shape is stationary. The object, which is about 300 meters from the ground, then makes a sudden acceleration and disappears heading East. No information allowing a serious study of this observation was collected.
On October 26, 1980 at around 10:35 a.m., a witness, an amateur pilot, spots from his property several bright flashes in the sky that make him think of the beacon light of an aircraft. He th…
Old observation (1980) but recently reported (2015).
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On January 23, 1983, between 5:15 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., several witnesses observed a gray-black phenomenon in the sky at an estimated altitude of 2,500 meters. The object was elongated or "v"-…
On November 22, 1981, between 7:40 and 8:00 a.m., several people are on the ring road at the airfield. Daylight has not fully broken but visibility is good. Suddenly they see a red-orange ba…
On December 5, 2015 at 5:55 PM, a motorist and his son observe for 1 minute a stationary yellow-orange phenomenon as bright as Venus in the sky. No particular noise is heard. The witness tur…
On July 3, 2012 at around 9:15 PM, a motorist observes a phenomenon that intrigues him: two spheres separated by something resembling a rotating propeller move beneath the cloudy sky. The ph…
both described pilot witness
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