UFO's and Defense What Should we Prepare For

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5.2 A Bright Glow in a Village in the Dombes Region (March 10, 1979)
IGEPANISEPRA investigation
On March 13, 1979, the local [gendarrnerie] force ofa small village in the Dombes
region was alerted by an inhabitant who said he had seen an unidentified flying object over Ithe town during the night of March IO to 11 . In the course of its investigation, the
[gendarmerie] force recorded a total offour testimonies, three of which were totally
independent of one another. The first witness, a restaurateur in the village, described the Iphenomenon as a bluish and purplish luminous mass slightly oval in shape and around 15
meters in length. The light was so bright that the village square was lit up as if it were
broad daylight, to such a degree that the public lighting, which goes on automatically, Iwent out. Two other witnesses, who were in a car close to the village, reported that this
luminous mass preceded their vehicle on the road about 2 m ahead of them. They
informed the gendarmes that this light went out suddenly after an orange-colored light Iappeared on each side of the glow. ~
Finally, a fourth witness, a fish farmer, said he had been awakened that night by a dull
noise and had seen a bright bluish glow. The next day, all the fish in one of his fish I(-------) tanks, catfishes, were found dead. The presence ofa power line hanging over the
tank enabled the gendarmes to focus their investigation on phenomena of an electrical
ongm. IGEPAN/SEPRA did the same during the investigation that it conducted on the site a
few days later. It discovered very quickJy that the IO-kV power line hanging over the tank
had melted. The information provided by [the French electricity company] EDF enabled Ithem to demonstrate that since this line was some thirty years old, it was very likely that
corrosion and oxidation of the aluminum wires had caused a power arc effect in the line,
probably in conjunction with a corona effect. This would explain, on the one hand, the Ibluish glow and the noise heard by the witness and, on the other hand, the public lighting
going out. The glow was, in fact, bright enoug h to trigger the photoelectric control cell, I I
which was located close to the melted line.
Finally, the fish died as a result of being poisoned by drops of aluminum that fell in the
tank for several minutes.
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The Extent of Our Knowledge IChapter 6 - Organization of the Research in France
IIn I977, the Centre National d' Etudes Spatiales was tasked with the mission of setting
up a permanent structure for the study of unidentified aerospace phenomena (UAP): the
Groupe d' Etudes de Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non Identifies (GEPAN). This I
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