France

In the early hours of 16 October 1977 a driver and passenger spotted a circular object high in the sky, moving swiftly from west to east along a curve…

On 21 October 1977 two witnesses in Bétheny (Marne) saw an elongated, multi-lit object cross the sky, leaving a gradually fading trail before vanishin…

At around 18:30 on 21 October 1977, two people in New Caledonia observed a rounded luminous shape moving horizontally eastward. It quickly disappeared…

On 4 November 1977 at 18:15, a witness in Saint-Sébastien-de-Morsent (Eure) saw a luminous ball crossing the sky from southwest to northeast. Neither …

At 07:15 on 10 November 1977, two people in Chenôve (Côte-d'Or) noticed a motionless luminous point in the sky. Twenty minutes later it began to move,…

On 12 November 1977 two people in Châlons-sur-Marne watched an elongated luminous object. Initially stationary, it slowly ascended before abruptly van…

At about 06:45 on 15 November 1977, a moped rider near Les Andelys (Eure) saw an elongated object speeding northwest. Moments later it burst into a sh…

On 24 November 1977 a witness in Nancy saw an oval object roughly the size of a rugby ball emitting a bright light. It headed east-north, reversed cou…

A sparse case. On 26 November 1977 a driver and passenger observed a seemingly stationary red-orange luminous phenomenon that changed shape as they dr…

While driving through Meurthe-et-Moselle on 30 November 1977, a motorist spotted two very bright white spheres connected by multiple luminous dots tha…

In November 1977 a witness in Paris saw an ovoid object cross the sky at high speed without changing altitude. It appeared above a bus and vanished se…

On the evening of 10 November 1977, several diners at a restaurant in Kourou watched a luminous object trace geometric figures in the sky for fifteen …

On 19 November 1977 a driver and passenger spotted a reddish-orange ball of light near their car. Stopping, they saw it hovering silently just 1.5 met…

On 7 December 1977 several people in Saint-Claude (Jura) witnessed a silent, elongated white shape moving from west to east. Along its path it shrank …

Between 19:00 and 19:30 on 13 December 1977, witnesses in various parts of France saw a circular luminous shape moving swiftly from east to west, trai…

Around midnight on 17 December 1977, several members of a family in Carquefou (Loire-Atlantique) saw from their doorstep a yellow-orange ball racing a…

Around 1:20 a.m. on 18 December 1977, about ten residents of Sainte-Cerotté (Sarthe) watched a reddish glow descend, rise and vanish westward in total…

Between 19 and 20 December 1977, witnesses in Pouancé (Maine-et-Loire) reported a luminous object on three separate occasions — at 10 p.m. on the 19th…

After 7 p.m. on 31 December 1977, several people in Beaumettes (Vaucluse) noticed orange lights in the sky. A local resident later told the gendarmeri…

Around 2 a.m. on 19 December 1977, a motorist driving along the D109 in the Jura spotted a whitish luminous sphere with a flattened top, apparently ho…

A data-poor case. On 1 January 1978, around 5:15 p.m., a farmer in the Gironde region saw a flickering orange light in the southwestern sky moving slo…

At 4:50 a.m. on 7 January 1978, a moped rider in Guébling (Moselle) noticed three very bright lights close to the ground. One, exceptionally intense, …

On 13 January 1978, a married couple in Guipel (Ille-et-Vilaine) watched a slowly moving rectangular orange-red shape with a halo along its longer sid…

Between 5:57 and 6:45 a.m. on 14 January 1978, several people in the Côtes-d'Armor area briefly saw intense reddish-orange lights illuminating the sur…

A very limited case. In January 1978, two witnesses in Drancy saw a cylindrical object moving at high speed, emitting white and yellow light with red …

In January 1978, nine children in Nouzonville (Ardennes) watched an orange oval-shaped object arrive from the south, curve westward and fly at the alt…

In January 1978, three people in Saint-Ciers-d'Abzac (Gironde) watched a reddish oval object hover for about five minutes before accelerating and vani…

In January 1978, a group of witnesses driving along the D177 near Gordes (Vaucluse) saw several silent white and red lights moving in clusters in the …

On 21 February 1978, between 8:45 and 9:00 p.m., hundreds of witnesses across France saw a football-sized sphere followed by a bright trail — green tu…

A data-poor case. On 4 February 1978 at 4:30 a.m., two witnesses in Étréchy saw a red and blue light moving rapidly near a railway line before disappe…

On 14 February 1978, several witnesses in Poya (New Caledonia) saw a bright oval object cross the sky at high speed, producing no sound and leaving no…

Around 2:30 a.m. on 26 February 1978, several people in Beauvoir-sur-Niort (Deux-Sèvres) saw a bright silvery shape that vanished suddenly after a lum…

On 28 February 1978, a driver and her son watched a very bright orange object move rapidly from north to south. It paused briefly, then drifted slowly…

On 1 March 1978, two people in a vehicle watched a large, elongated, predominantly red luminous object move slowly from south to north over Saumur (Ma…

In March 1978, two witnesses in Phalsbourg (Moselle) saw two superimposed red dots in the southeastern sky that vanished abruptly after about two minu…

In March 1978, a driver stopped near Bennecourt (Yvelines) after seeing a bright object with flickering lights in a field. She approached and describe…

On 14 March 1978, around 7:30 p.m., several people in the Vosges region saw an unusual sight: two bright white spheres connected by a red-orange bar. …

In March 1978, witnesses in Saint-Maixent-l'École (Deux-Sèvres) saw a red-orange oval object gliding silently at low altitude from northeast to southw…

On 17 March 1978, a witness in Arras (Pas-de-Calais) watched a round luminous object drift slowly northeast for ten minutes without sound. The gendarm…

On 24 March 1978, a witness in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne) saw an intense red light apparently surrounding a rectangular object. Inside it, two yellow circl…

On the night of 2 April 1978, a driver and passenger near Le Vaudreuil noticed an intense yellow-orange light close to the ground on a hillside. When …

At about 2:45 a.m. on 4 April 1978, a factory security guard near Le Vaudreuil spotted a white sphere at altitude above a wooded area. He saw it five …

One night in April 1978, a motorist near Fontvieille saw three red luminous points moving slowly close to the ground. No clear shape was visible behin…

While driving near Verdun in April 1978, a motorist and passengers first saw a white light in the sky, then a large reddish triangular shape that hung…

On 30 April 1978, several witnesses in Saint-Sauveur watched three reddish fireballs cross the sky before disappearing below the horizon. No sound acc…

In April 1978, several witnesses in Fontenay-le-Comte saw a long orange light moving slowly from east to west at low altitude. Its brightness fluctuat…

On 23 April 1978, at about 20:35, an officer at Evreux air base spotted a reddish luminous point at roughly 10–15 degrees elevation in sector 300, gra…

On the evening of 5 May 1978, three people in Gonesse watched an object at about 50 metres altitude displaying lights of various colours between 22:45…

At about 22:50 on 6 May 1978, several people in Beaufort-en-Vallée saw a luminous orange sphere hanging motionless in the sky, flickering irregularly.…

On 16 May 1978 at 21:15, two people in Aiguilles saw a sphere moving quickly north-northwest and emitting very bright light. No other witnesses or rec…