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UFO. France

ID #1603893181
Added Wed, 28/10/2020
Author July N.
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Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness
Incident date: 
15.12.1977 20:45
Location: 
Сен-Сьер-дю-Тайон
France

The domed disk lit up the place Saint-Sieur-du-Taillon as if it were day, and then flew away. He returned to the same spot again 20 minutes later.

That same night, a blinding bright light approached a French Navy Nord-262 transport plane with three crew members on Board and followed it, circling it for five minutes. The UFO did not appear on ground radars at the naval base in lorien, Morbihan Department, France.

Also that night, around 10:30 p.m., there were reports of mysterious explosions on the East coast of the Atlantic ocean of the United States.

Original news

Date: December 15 1977
Location:  Saint Ciers du Taillon, France
Time:  8:45 PM. 
Summary:  A domed disc illuminated the area of Saint Ciers du Taillon like day, then flew away. It came back again the same site 20 minutes later. That same night a blindingly bright light came up close to a French Navy Nord-262 transport plane with three crew members aboard and followed it, circling it for five minutes. The UFO did not appear on ground radar at the naval base in Lorien, in Morbihan department, France. Also that night mysterious booms were reported up and down the eastern Atlantic shoreline of the United States at around 10:30 p.m. 
Source:   Lumieres dans la Nuit, January 1981; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 41 citing J. Troadec; Washington Post, December 17, 1977

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  • Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Eastern Test Range, Cape Canaveral, Florida (USA) Vehicle: Delta-2914 Payload: CS 1 (Sakura 1)

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