Sighting in Kourou, November 10, 1977
Guyane, France
Sighting on November 10, 1977 in Kourou (Guyane, France). GEIPAN identified the phenomenon with certainty (class A).
What happened
Around 7 p.m., witnesses sitting in a restaurant saw a luminous object moving across the sky for about fifteen minutes. It traced geometric figures, then vanished as it spiralled downward. No aircraft movements had been reported that day, and no balloon or sounding rocket had been launched.
The next day, a witness came to the local gendarmerie station. They said that the previous evening, at the same time, they had seen a kite fitted with a battery land in the car park of a hotel in town. Despite searches, the kite's owner was never found.
The GEIPAN classified the case as A: the object observed was a kite.
Account rewritten by SkyUnknown from the investigation report published by GEIPAN (CNES). The original text and case documents are on the official record.
- Date
- November 10, 1977
- Location
- Kourou · town centre
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- A
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 1977-11-02668
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