Sighting in Limoges, April 11, 1953

Three witnesses were at an air force storage depot at around 9:10 pm when they noticed a large red-orange point of light moving silently from east to west. The captain, the only one whose account was collected, described it as travelling back and forth across about 45° of the sky in six minutes. Its path was not straight but an irregular broken line, with deviations of roughly 15° from the overall axis of travel, and it changed heading about once every second. The 180° turn at the end of the first leg was also made through a series of successive heading changes.

The other two witnesses followed the phenomenon for only two to three minutes. The light was eventually lost from sight.

The investigation had just this one testimony to work with. The phenomenon does not match any of the known misidentifications. GEIPAN therefore classified the case as D (unexplained), describing it as a strange to very strange phenomenon of medium to high consistency.