Sighting in Petit-Landau, December 12, 1980
Haut-Rhin, Grand Est, France
Sighting on December 12, 1980 in Petit-Landau (Haut-Rhin, France). GEIPAN could not reach a conclusion for lack of sufficient information (class C).
What happened
At around 5 a.m., a woman driving saw an orange light in her rearview mirror. About 300 m away in the forest, she made out an oval-shaped object giving off flashing lights that went from green to red and then blue. She stopped to watch it. The object measured roughly 5 m wide and 2 m high.
Shaken by what she had seen, the driver set off again and watched the object vanish at a crossroads.
No other testimony or information was gathered about this phenomenon. Because of the lack of data, the GEIPAN classified the case as C (insufficient data), recording only the observation of an oval-shaped object.
Account rewritten by SkyUnknown from the investigation report published by GEIPAN (CNES). The original text and case documents are on the official record.
- Date
- December 12, 1980
- Location
- Petit-Landau · town centre
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- C
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 1980-12-01773
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.