Multicolored glimmers beside the Moon in Tarn-et-Garonne

Summary

On January 13, 1979, several witnesses in Tarn-et-Garonne watched a luminous object to the right of the Moon emitting multicolored reflections for about thirty minutes. Investigators pointed to Procyon or Sirius, stars known for bright, scintillating displays; Jupiter was also considered but its position did not match. When the witnesses returned around midnight after a three-hour absence, the same phenomenon had shifted southward—consistent with normal stellar motion—reinforcing the astronomical explanation. No evidence of an unidentified phenomenon was found.