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Rh�ne, France · 1980-10-17 · from the GEIPAN archive

Red lights in Rh�ne, France

On October 17, 1980, at 11:15 PM, several witnesses see two powerful headlights arriving at an altitude of about 200 meters. When the headlights turn to the left, the witnesses observe a dark craft "shaped like a scallop shell" with two fixed red lights on the sides. The craft emits a dull sound. It is very likely that the witnesses saw an unidentified aircraft that may be an airship.

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1980-05-26

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1980-08-16

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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.