Sighting in Saint-Hilaire-de-Lavit, July 1983

The account was collected in September 2014 and concerns an observation made more than thirty years earlier. The witness could not remember the exact day, so the first of July was chosen arbitrarily. The witness and their spouse saw a luminous phenomenon in the distance, and its movements struck them as unusual. The sighting lasted about five minutes, and no particular noise was heard during that time.

The phenomenon was described as a white ball of light moving in an irregular, erratic way, which makes the case very strange. It was very hot at the time. The only hypothesis GEIPAN could consider, at most, was a ball-lightning-type phenomenon. Only one account was collected, the precise date is unknown and the events are old, so a thorough investigation was no longer possible. For lack of information and corroboration, the case was classified C.