Sighting in La Garenne-Colombes, July 16, 1979
Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Sighting on July 16, 1979 in La Garenne-Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine, France). GEIPAN identified the phenomenon with certainty (class A).
What happened
During one night in July 1979, several residents of the same neighbourhood heard short, shrill noises between 9:30 p.m. and 12:15 a.m. Frightened, they then saw unusual lights in the sky. The same thing happened again two evenings later.
The gendarmerie investigated and established where these events came from: whistling rockets, fired for fun and without permission from the garden of a neighbouring house. GEIPAN therefore classified the case as A (identified): the cause was unauthorised firing of fireworks.
Account rewritten by SkyUnknown from the investigation report published by GEIPAN (CNES). The original text and case documents are on the official record.
- Date
- July 16, 1979
- Location
- La Garenne-Colombes · town centre
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- A
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 1979-07-00642
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.