Sighting in Lhuis, October 6, 1978

Two witnesses watched a pink glow for about fifteen minutes and could not explain it. They said it moved slowly, roughly seven to eight metres above the ground. They heard no noise at any point during the observation.

The gendarmes reached the scene quickly, but the phenomenon had already vanished and they could not see anything. No one else reported seeing it.

The investigation noted that the transition between woodland and cultivated field favours thermal atmospheric turbulence, which can distort the appearance of an object being observed. Given the time and direction the witnesses gave, they most likely saw an effect of this kind linked to the setting Moon, which was then at first quarter and very low on the horizon. GEIPAN therefore classed the case as B: a luminous phenomenon probably related to the Moon.