Sighting in Saint-Benoît, January 24, 1977
La Réunion, France
Sighting on January 24, 1977 in Saint-Benoît (La Réunion, France). GEIPAN could not reach a conclusion for lack of sufficient information (class C).
What happened
At 6:17 a.m., three people saw a column of vapour or smoke coming down from the sky. A patch of foam was visible on the surface of the ocean, showing that an object had fallen into the water. It lay about 4 km from the shore and roughly 8 to 10 km from where the witnesses were.
No other witness account of this phenomenon was collected. Because the point of impact was hard to pin down, no search was carried out. The GEIPAN concluded that the witnesses had seen an object falling into the ocean, but classed the case as C, since the available data were insufficient.
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 24, 1977
- Location
- Saint-Benoît · town centre
- Type of sighting
- From the ground
- Source classification
- C
Sources
- See the original document
GEIPAN (CNES)
n° 1977-01-00386
Summary written by SkyUnknown from the facts published by the source.