Sighting in Capesterre-de-Marie-Galante, March 24, 1976

A restaurant manager contacted the gendarmerie to report that two shiny spheres, roughly one metre across, had just been found on a beach on the island of Marie-Galante, in Guadeloupe. The gendarmes found both objects buried in the sand where the waves break, partly covered by seawater. They lay 14 metres apart. Each was coated with a thin metallic layer, about half a millimetre thick. On one of them the coating seemed to have melted, exposing a harder metal that a knife point could not scratch.

The next day at 6:30 a.m., the gendarmerie dug the objects out. They turned out to be two half-spheres from a single device, and they fitted together perfectly. The inscription "H 476 AC" was legible on one of them. They were to be taken to the station to be cleaned and possibly identified. But at 10 a.m. the same day, the mayor of the commune had them removed, despite the gendarmerie's ban, and put on display in the square in front of the town hall.

GEIPAN considered that this case was not a UAP sighting but the recovery of two metal half-spheres from a beach, and classified it B, probably identified. The nomenclature found inside one of the half-spheres might make it possible to trace their origin.