Sighting in Brive, January 11, 1979
Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Sighting on January 11, 1979 in Brive (Corrèze, France). GEIPAN identified the phenomenon with certainty (class A).
What happened
One January morning, at about 6:45 a.m., a witness looking out of a window noticed an object that puzzled them. It was oval and moved silently above a road. Its underside carried six steady lights, red and green, while a yellow light at the centre shone strongly. The object travelled slowly from east to west.
The investigation concluded that the witness had seen a twin-engine airliner. That aircraft had landed at 6:42 a.m. at the nearby Brive aerodrome and taken off again at 6:59 a.m. The GEIPAN classified the case as A: an identified sighting of an airliner.
Account rewritten by SkyUnknown from the investigation report published by GEIPAN (CNES). The original text and case documents are on the official record.
- Date
- January 11, 1979
- Location
- Brive · town centre
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- A
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 1979-01-00590
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