Saucer and luminous cigar over the Landes in 1970

Summary

One night in July 1970, a witness in the Landes region spotted two distinct objects in the sky. The first was a white or aluminum-colored saucer, six to eight meters across, zigzagging slowly at roughly 300–400 meters altitude while projecting a beam from two powerful front lights. When the witness's family came outside, the object climbed at 45 degrees and vanished at high speed in complete silence. The second object, a white cigar about thirty meters long with a faint glow visible through thirty portholes, traveled in a straight line from northeast to southwest before disappearing behind the treetops. The witness mentioned a press article about lights at Bordeaux airport that same night. Despite the age of the testimony, the level of detail is striking.