Sighting in Lourdes, September 5, 1981
Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie, France
Sighting on September 5, 1981 in Lourdes (Hautes-Pyrénées, France). GEIPAN could not reach a conclusion for lack of sufficient information (class C).
What happened
On 5 and 6 September 1981, the gendarmerie brigade in Lourdes took statements from several people who had noticed luminous objects in the sky. According to these accounts, the objects moved very fast at low altitude and made no sound.
Each sighting lasted only about five seconds. That was too brief to provide enough information to put forward any hypothesis about what had been seen. GEIPAN classified the case as C, insufficient data, and recorded it simply as the observation of rapidly moving objects.
Account rewritten by SkyUnknown from the investigation report published by GEIPAN (CNES). The original text and case documents are on the official record.
- Date
- September 5, 1981
- Location
- Lourdes · town centre
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- C
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 1981-11-00894
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.