Sighting in Le Vaudreuil, April 2, 1978
Eure, Normandie, France
Sighting on April 2, 1978 in Le Vaudreuil (Eure, France). GEIPAN could not reach a conclusion for lack of sufficient information (class C).
What happened
At around 11:35 p.m., a driver and their passenger noticed a very bright yellow-orange glow that seemed to appear almost at ground level on a hillside. The driver stopped the vehicle and then saw a large half-sphere, the other half being hidden behind trees. The object moved from north to south and no sound was heard.
The sighting lasted about 50 minutes in all. The object vanished as its light faded away.
GEIPAN classified the case as C, meaning the data are insufficient to draw a conclusion, since no other information was gathered about the phenomenon. Its conclusion describes the repeated observation of a large sphere.
Account rewritten by SkyUnknown from the investigation report published by GEIPAN (CNES). The original text and case documents are on the official record.
- Date
- April 2, 1978
- Location
- Le Vaudreuil · town centre
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- C
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 1978-04-00504
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.