Sighting in Argilly, June 3, 1979

At about 11:30 p.m., a driver saw an orange glowing ball in the rear-view mirror that seemed to be following the car. Frightened, the witness sounded the horn on reaching a built-up area to warn residents. One person came out of their home but refused to go and look at the ball. The driver set off again and kept seeing the object all the way home. They felt physical effects, and the dashboard went dark.

The object made no noise and was low in the sky, in the north-northwest. The witness met no other vehicles, and no other testimony about the phenomenon was collected.

GEIPAN classified the case as C, meaning insufficient data. The sky chart for that night shows Jupiter, which was particularly visible (magnitude -1.47), along with Pollux (magnitude 0.98) and Capella. An astronomical observation is a probable explanation, but it cannot be confirmed. The witness's intense fright probably accounts for their behavior and the effects they felt.