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Bouches-du-Rhône, France · 1980-09-15 · from the GEIPAN archive

An account in Bouches-du-Rhône, France

On September 15, 1980, between 7:40 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., several people observed a luminous phenomenon from their homes. A bright point, larger than a star, changed in intensity and color before disappearing to the northwest. These people probably made an astronomical observation of Arcturus, which was particularly visible (magnitude 0.15) at that time of year.

 

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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.