Sighting in Angoulême, October 1981
Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Sighting in October 1981 in Angoulême (Charente, France). GEIPAN could not reach a conclusion for lack of sufficient information (class C).
What happened
On an evening in October 1981, between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m., the witness finished a roll of film by taking the last shots from their parents' apartment. They were photographing the city lights. Nothing unusual caught their attention at the time.
Once a private laboratory had developed the slides, the witness found an odd bright spot on one of them. They had an enlargement printed on paper in 13 x 18 format and saw an object that did not belong to the surroundings and looked like a flying saucer. The witness then made a statement to the gendarmerie and left a sketch of the photograph.
No other information was gathered about this sighting. GEIPAN classified the case as C, meaning the data are insufficient to reach a conclusion. The strange bright spot on the photograph therefore remains without an established explanation.
Account rewritten by SkyUnknown from the investigation report published by GEIPAN (CNES). The original text and case documents are on the official record.
- Date
- October 1981
- Location
- Angoulême · town centre
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- C
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 1981-10-01681
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.