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Luminous object with changing colors over Cournon
On the evening of December 24, 1978, around 21:00, two witnesses in Cournon (Puy-de-Dôme) observed a slow-moving luminous object emitting changing col…
Sphere that caught fire on impact in Veyre-Monton
On December 25, 1978, three people witnessed the fall of a spherical or oval object over one meter in diameter in Veyre-Monton (Puy-de-Dôme). Upon hit…
Red ascending point behind a cloud in Étampes
On December 26, 1978, a witness in Essonne observed a luminous object moving across the sky that entered a cloud and emitted a luminous phenomenon bef…
Silent red object over Mauléon-Licharre
In the early hours of January 2, 1979, two witnesses in Mauléon-Licharre (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) observed a red luminous object moving silently from no…
Two distinct sightings in Saverne on the same day
On January 3, 1979, two people in Saverne (Bas-Rhin) observed at low altitude a bright half-sphere-shaped object accompanied by sparks, moving silentl…
Farmer's close encounter in Bannalec
On the night of January 6, 1979, a farmer in Finistère was walking his dog when the animal became frightened and hid under a tree. The man looked up a…
Orange fireball over Noyant-la-Gravoyère
Around 19:30 on January 2, 1979, a witness in Noyant-la-Gravoyère (Maine-et-Loire) observed an unusual luminous phenomenon to the northeast. Using bin…
Ovoid object identified as an aircraft in Brive
In January 1979, a witness in Brive (Corrèze) observed from his window an ovoid object gliding silently over a road, with fixed red and green lights o…
Dumbbell-shaped object over Trélou-sur-Marne
On January 13, 1979, a witness in Trélou-sur-Marne (Aisne) observed a luminous dumbbell-shaped object: two yellowish spheres surrounded by a halo and …
Bright sphere reclassified as Venus in Coulonges-Cohan
In January 1979, two witnesses in the Aisne region observed a bright sphere, larger than the stars, moving silently from east to south. The main testi…
Intense lights explained by aerial maneuvers in Beauvaisis
On January 19, 1979, two motorists in Beauvaisis (Oise) observed two intensely bright white points and a reddish-orange light from an unknown object. …
Two distinct aerial phenomena in Douarnenez
In January 1979, three witnesses in Douarnenez (Finistère) reported aerial phenomena in the same area. On January 24, between 7:00 and 7:15 AM, an obs…
Luminous triangle over Châteauneuf-de-Galaure
Two sightings stood out during the winter of 1979 in Drôme. On January 25 at around 10 p.m., a motorist and a passenger realized their car was being i…
Sphere with panels and antennas in Valenciennes
On January 26, 1979, a motorist in Valenciennes spotted a luminous sphere roughly 150 meters away. He estimated its diameter at four to five meters an…
Orange dot and fleeting descent over Hourtin
In January 1979 a witness in Hourtin, Gironde, saw a bright orange dot appear after a flash. It hovered briefly, then descended while growing in appar…
Fifteen gleaming metallic objects over Aix-en-Provence
At sunset on January 11, 1979, two witnesses in Aix-en-Provence watched about fifteen objects, 60 to 80 cm in size, reflecting the setting sun with a …
Multicolored glimmers beside the Moon in Tarn-et-Garonne
On January 13, 1979, several witnesses in Tarn-et-Garonne watched a luminous object to the right of the Moon emitting multicolored reflections for abo…
Photographs of a bright dot in Saint-Mandé turn out to be Venus
One January 1979 morning a witness in Saint-Mandé noticed a slowly moving bright dot in the sky and photographed it several times between 6:15 and 8:3…
Orange half-sphere in Moselle explained by moonset
In February 1979 a driver in Moselle saw an orange half-sphere moving horizontally from southwest to northeast before fading. Initially classified C, …
Morning luminous phenomenon in Nice attributed to sunlight reflection
At 9:20 a.m. on February 6, 1979, a passerby in Nice watched a saucer-shaped object with blue and yellow lines at the rear for about two minutes. Brie…
Bright white sphere and other sightings in the Ain region
Between December 1978 and February 1979 several reports of unidentified aerial objects accumulated in the Ain region. The most notable episode came on…
Round white object over Vénissieux
A sparse case. On February 14, 1979, a single witness in Vénissieux saw a round white object change color as it moved quickly southeast. The sighting …
Intense light, blackout and mass fish death in Saint-Marcel
On the night of March 11, 1979, residents of Saint-Marcel, Ain, witnessed an intense blue-green-mauve light illuminating the area for about sixty seco…
Orange light with white trail over Le Coteau
On March 25, 1979, at 7:25 a.m., five workers in the Loire region watched an orange light the apparent size of a football descend slowly from east to …
Dark shapes over the Landivisiau motorway
On March 18, 1979, around 9:15 p.m., a driver and her passenger in Finistère saw a dark, fluorescent-grey fuselage-shaped figure hovering three meters…
White sphere during a storm in Nice
In March 1979 two witnesses observed from their villa in Nice a large bluish-white sphere hovering about fifty meters above the ground for roughly thi…
Luminous phenomenon in Gardouch explained by the Moon in fog
In March 1979 a motorist in Haute-Garonne saw a luminous phenomenon that changed shape and color and seemed to follow him for ten kilometers, stopping…
Repeated orange ball with rapid oscillations in Chef-du-Pont
On March 22, 1979, a witness in Chef-du-Pont, Manche, saw a football-sized orange luminous ball at high altitude moving horizontally with rapid back-a…
Three-light object with direction changes in Hérault
In February 1979 several drivers in Hérault observed an object lit by three lights—one steady white, one flashing red, one flashing green—moving fast …
Hailstones with greasy residue in Morgny-la-Pommeraye
On March 31, 1979, an unexpected hailstorm struck the train-station car park in Morgny-la-Pommeraye, scattering ice fragments over about thirty meters…
Arc of light and green ball at a Jeumont factory
A limited case. On March 25, 1979, a night watchman at a factory in northern France first saw a whitish arc of light, then a green ball with a central…
Orange-slice-shaped luminous form in Charente-Maritime
In March 1979 a driver and passenger in Charente-Maritime spotted a luminous object shaped like an orange slice about 100 meters away. It had flickeri…
Two fleeting orange spheres in Savoie
An isolated, very brief sighting. On March 18, 1979, at 9:45 p.m., a witness saw from his patio in La Motte-Servolex two orange spheres the apparent s…
Night lights over Beaucourt identified as a DC-9
In April 1979 residents of Beaucourt alerted the gendarmerie to a low-altitude luminous object emitting a bright light with flashing red and steady gr…
Intense fluorescent white light over a field in Charente-Maritime
On April 7, 1979, a driver and passenger saw an intensely bright fluorescent white light in a field in Charente-Maritime, illuminating the ground over…
Slow color-changing light over Châteaugiron
Around 10:45 p.m. on April 15, 1979, several witnesses in Châteaugiron saw a slowly moving bright dot in the sky. At one point it stopped, changed col…
Three triangular lights and a circular object in Courthezon
In April 1979, two witnesses in Courthezon (Vaucluse) spotted three flickering white and red lights arranged in a triangle. One of the lights rapidly …
Giant orange object over Saint-Germain-le-Gaillard
On 27 April 1979, around 23:30, a witness in Saint-Germain-le-Gaillard (Manche) observed a massive orange object moving from west to east for roughly …
The Moon mistaken for a luminous object in Sellières
In May 1979, a driver in the Jura region noticed a reddish luminous object with what she described as coiled antenna-like shapes. It appeared to move …
Silvery oval object over Vienne
On 14 May 1979, under clear, windless skies, several witnesses in Vienne (Isère) watched a silvery oval object drift slowly from north to south, oscil…
Oval lights at low altitude over Lyon
In the early hours of 25 May 1979, two on-duty police officers in Lyon saw four white-yellow oval lights moving at low altitude. The lights passed ove…
Anomalous radar echoes in the Pacific off Ecuador
At 02:30 on 26 May 1979, two crew members aboard a ship north of Ecuador's Chimborazo volcano detected four sharply defined radar echoes on their V 22…
The Moon that seemed to follow a driver in Merfy
Over two consecutive nights in May 1979, a motorist in Marne saw a crescent-shaped luminous object that appeared to follow his car in silence. On the …
Object trailing orange over Avize
For about twenty minutes in May 1979, two people in Marne watched an object cross the sky from southeast to northwest at roughly 500 meters altitude. …
Orange crescent over Gentilly
On the evening of 31 May 1979, two people in Gentilly saw an orange crescent-shaped object in the western sky, visible for several minutes. A second o…
Low-flying metallic sphere in Le Châtelard
In May 1979, several people in the Savoie region watched a metallic-looking spherical object rise from the ground and travel horizontally, following t…
Luminous ball and vehicle effects in Argilly
On the night of 3 June 1979, a driver in Argilly spotted an orange luminous ball in her rear-view mirror that seemed to follow her car silently. Alarm…
Smoke column and red sphere over the Bay of Bourgneuf
On 8 June 1979, several witnesses in Loire-Atlantique first noticed a vertical column of smoke that gradually dissipated. Shortly after, a bright red …
Erratic light after a storm in Challain-la-Potherie
Following a storm in the early hours of 10 June 1979, a witness in Challain-la-Potherie observed from a window an intense light in the southwest movin…
Orange light coinciding with a military exercise in Soulaines-Dhuys
In June 1979, several witnesses in Soulaines-Dhuys saw an orange light on the horizon that split into multiple luminous points before disappearing aft…
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