Sighting in Porté-Puymorens, January 17, 1977
Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France
Sighting on January 17, 1977 in Porté-Puymorens (Pyrénées-Orientales, France). GEIPAN identified the phenomenon with certainty (class A).
What happened
A motorist noticed something unusual at around 5 p.m. and photographed it. It was an oval shape moving from north to south, so slowly that its motion was barely perceptible. Two other witnesses saw the same thing.
The investigation relied on the photograph attached to the official report. Based on that image, the witnesses had seen a lenticular cloud, a meteorological phenomenon. The case was classified A, identified.
Account rewritten by SkyUnknown from the investigation report published by GEIPAN (CNES). The original text and case documents are on the official record.
- Date
- January 17, 1977
- Location
- Porté-Puymorens · town centre
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- A
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 1977-01-00384
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