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Ballet of white discs over Fresnes
On 16 November 1985, a resident of Fresnes watched from his apartment as five white discs performed coordinated circular movements about two kilometre…
Lit object gliding over Villers-Bocage at night
On the night of 2 December 1985, a loud noise drew several residents of Villers-Bocage outside. They saw a flying object with red lights at the front …
Descending orange sphere near Vannaire
A couple driving by car watched a large, bright orange sphere descend slowly toward the horizon. The object trailed black smoke and held its course fo…
Blue crystalline object strikes a car in Maisonnais-sur-Tardoire
In March 1986, a resident of Maisonnais-sur-Tardoire heard an unusual noise followed by an impact. He found his car bonnet damaged by an object that w…
Luminous sphere lights up a field in Saussay
At 4 a.m. on 17 March 1986, a witness in Saussay saw a luminous sphere moving slowly and illuminating an area of roughly 1,000 square metres. The phen…
Two-tone sphere crossing the sky near Sarrancolin
In March 1986, a witness near Sarrancolin saw a spherical object for a few seconds moving from east to west. Its front was blue and its rear blue-gree…
Silent delta-wing shape over Mulhouse
On 14 April 1986, a witness in Mulhouse watched a silent delta-wing-shaped object from their bedroom for 30 to 40 seconds. No further details were pro…
Stationary red sphere over Massy
One evening in April 1986, a couple in Massy watched from their apartment a red sphere roughly the size of a streetlight, fixed in the sky for about 1…
Three motionless yellow discs near Cazals
On 28 July 1986, two people driving toward Cazals saw three bright yellow, silent, motionless luminous objects in the sky, described as balls or discs…
Zigzagging light points over Noyon
In 2014, a witness described a 1986 sighting in Noyon in which luminous points crossed the sky from north to south over 12 minutes. The exact date was…
Bright sphere with reddish flashes over Ivry-sur-Seine
In September 1986, a couple in Ivry-sur-Seine watched for several minutes a very bright sphere, about the size of a pétanque ball, travelling at high …
Synchronised green lights identified as a meteor over Vélizy-Villacoublay
Around 7:30 a.m. one September morning in 1986, a witness in Vélizy-Villacoublay saw about a dozen green lights moving silently from east to west in u…
Fast silent triangle over Villemomble
On 6 October 1986, around 19:45, two witnesses in Villemomble saw a triangular object moving at high speed and silently from east to west at an estima…
Rectangular object with coloured lights over Cachan
On 20 October 1986, a witness in Cachan saw a rectangular object in the sky with a rounded front bearing a white light and a triangular rear. Beneath …
The Moon mistaken for a bright disc in Vendin-le-Vieil
From 2:45 a.m. on 12 November 1986, several people in Vendin-le-Vieil and Hénin-Beaumont watched a bright disc that seemed to follow them. One witness…
Hardened earth circle and column of light in Pré-en-Pail
In June 1986, a circle of hardened earth 1.10 metres across appeared in a chicken coop in Pré-en-Pail. Within a 0.40-metre ring around it, the soil di…
Luminous burst in clear skies over Dreux
On 6 January 1987, several witnesses in Dreux watched under clear skies a white light with an orange tint reminiscent of a quarter moon. The object su…
Red shooting star and explosion over southern Corsica
On the night of 8 March 1987, at 20:40, several witnesses in the Corse-du-Sud department heard a loud explosion. One reported seeing, just before the …
Fleeting luminous sphere with incandescent trail in Seloncourt
Shortly after 6 a.m. on 12 March 1987, a witness in Seloncourt watched for four to five seconds a luminous sphere the apparent size of the full moon. …
Fleeting copper-red cigar shape over Landser
On 9 July 1987 at 23:55, a witness in Landser saw from their window an elongated, cigar-shaped object of a copper-red colour moving at high speed with…
Bright metallic mass over a forest in Toulon-sur-Arroux
On the morning of 29 July 1987, at 6:45 a.m., two people driving near Toulon-sur-Arroux, Saône-et-Loire, spotted a bright, white, metallic-looking mas…
The faked UFO recorded by a child in Nort-sur-Erdre
In the early hours of 7 September 1987, a ten-year-old boy in Loire-Atlantique claimed to have seen a luminous disc and recorded a sound on his radio …
Cigar-shaped lights in the Cher department
In August 1987, three witnesses in the Cher department reported a luminous phenomenon in the night sky. Two described an intense white cigar-shaped li…
Brief bright point over Arras
In September 1987, two witnesses in Arras saw a bright point, larger than a shooting star, cross the sky in a nearly straight line before vanishing ab…
Tanker truck lights mistaken for a UFO in Ardèche
On the night of 1 October 1987, a driver and his son were travelling through the Ardèche countryside when they noticed mysterious lights appearing on …
Recurring bright point in Gueutteville-les-Grès
Between 4 and 18 October 1987, a witness in Gueutteville-les-Grès repeatedly observed a very bright point in the night sky. After a regional newspaper…
Static red light in Montfort-sur-Meu explained as the Moon
In November 1987, several witnesses in Montfort-sur-Meu reported a red light that remained stationary or drifted very slowly westward. Descriptions ra…
Stationary then moving bright point in Tourcoing
On 8 December 1987, a witness in Tourcoing observed from their kitchen a very bright point that remained stationary for about five minutes before slow…
Alleged encounter with extraterrestrials in Moussan
In December 1987, a man sheltering from rain in the ruins of a house in Moussan claimed he met six individuals who said they came from another planet.…
Silent helmet-shaped object over Port-la-Nouvelle
On 26 January 1988, a witness in Port-la-Nouvelle observed a large object flying at low altitude. He described it as helmet-shaped with two wings, pro…
Slow-moving green ball over Calais
On 4 February 1988, between 7:45 and 8:30 p.m., two witnesses in Calais observed a green ball moving slowly from east to west. No further details abou…
Silent luminous sphere seen by two drivers in Givry
On the night of 6–7 February 1988, two drivers who travelled the same road in Givry, Saône-et-Loire, at different times independently reported a spher…
Two pink luminous balls over Valensole
On 12 March 1988, a witness driving through Valensole, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, observed two large pink luminous balls with a fluorescent glow hoverin…
Fluorescent green zigzag trail over Finistère
At 3:15 a.m. on 22 September 1988, a witness in Finistère watched for ten minutes a luminous point as bright as a large star. The object moved in a zi…
Circular object that expanded and vanished in Val-d'Oise
In April 1988, witnesses in Val-d'Oise observed a bright circular object about the apparent size of a star. It momentarily expanded, returned to its o…
Colour-changing luminous ball seen by a half-asleep man in Nancy
On 21 April 1988, a man in Nancy was woken by a very bright white light. He described a luminous ball that moved slowly, changed colour and shrank in …
Unexplained circular mark in a garden in Jouars-Pontchartrain
Between 1988 and early 1990, three people in Jouars-Pontchartrain, Yvelines, discovered a circular mark roughly two metres across in the grass on thei…
Green ball over the Rochefort-sur-Mer naval air base
In the early hours of 4 May 1988, security personnel at a naval air base in Rochefort-sur-Mer observed a green luminous ball travelling in a straight …
Luminous balls and advertising searchlights in Hulluch
On the evening of 28 June 1988, a couple in Hulluch saw luminous balls appear from 10:20 p.m. onward, moving quickly and silently in complex aerial pa…
Fast Moon-sized blue ball over Brommat
In July 1988, a witness in Aveyron saw a blue ball the apparent size of the Moon cross the night sky at high speed and in complete silence. The event …
Luminous cylindrical object seen through binoculars in Revigny-sur-Ornain
On the night of 30–31 July 1988, several witnesses in Revigny-sur-Ornain, Meuse, used binoculars to watch a luminous cylindrical object moving slowly.…
Elongated, fast and silent object over Sainte-Maxime
In the early hours of 6–7 August 1988, a vacationing family in Sainte-Maxime, Var, watched from their villa terrace an elongated object moving at grea…
Night-time flashes in the Risoux forest reclassified as an aircraft
In August 1988, two military trainees on a night bivouac in the Risoux forest near Morez, Jura, observed an object producing intermittent flashes that…
White object watched for ten minutes in Maisons-Alfort
On 13 August 1988, a witness in Maisons-Alfort, Val-de-Marne, watched a white object in the sky for about ten minutes. He initially thought it was a m…
Orange ball over Brignoles in 1988
At 10:30 PM on August 17, 1988, several witnesses in Brignoles (Var) briefly spotted an orange ball followed by a bluish light crossing the night sky.…
Green lights in ellipse over Nontron in 1988
Around 10:45 PM on August 9, 1988, a witness in Nontron (Dordogne) observed a very bright green light moving rapidly in an elliptical path. Shortly af…
Luminous phenomenon with sonic booms over Burgundy in 1988
During the early hours of September 4–5, 1988, multiple witnesses across the Burgundy region observed an oval-shaped luminous object with a reddish ta…
Bright ball with trail over Seloncourt in 1988
On September 7, 1988, around 11 PM, a witness in Seloncourt (Doubs) saw a bright ball followed by a flickering white trail that crossed the sky in a s…
Mars mistaken for a UFO in the Orne region in 1988
Over several nights in September 1988, multiple witnesses in the Orne region observed a striking luminous phenomenon notable for its brightness and se…
Advertising laser projectors mistaken for UFO in Gannat
On October 6, 1988, several witnesses in the Allier department observed three bluish lights moving slowly across the sky. Gendarmes responded and conf…
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