UFO Case Report:

Triangle-shaped object with lights hovers above, then follows car in Selestat France

Date: October 30, 1994
Location: Selestat, France

The car leaves the city quickly but a little further finds the phenomenon in front of the vehicle: a triangle with the same type of light on the circumference came to be added to the circle. The triangle is equilateral 10 side meters approximately and altitude from 10 to 15 meters. The phenomenon accompanied the vehicle which ran to approximately 80 km/h while adapting at the speed and that on several km. During a change of direction the object accelerated and moved away.

Witness drawing of the object.

Classification & Features

Type of Case/Report: SummaryReport
Hynek Classification: CE1
Shape of Object(s): Triangle
# of Witnesses: Multiple
Special Features/Characteristics: Vehicle Encounter, Body Lights, Witness Sketch

Full Report / Article

Source: GEIPAN (French government UFO program)

The following is a brief summary of the case. The case is from the files of the official French government UFO research program GEIPAN (Group for the Study and Information of Unidentified Aerospace Phenomenon), which is a part of CNES, the French government space agency. The full report and file on this case is on the GEIPAN website at http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/geipan. The case has been classified as a 'Class D' case, which are the unexplained cases in the GEIPAN files.

The summary has been translated using automatic computer translation, so it is not a perfect translation.

On October 30, 1994 towards 01h45, a couple in the car observes a luminous circle turning on itself and the edge of which lights are evenly laid out. The supposed altitude [height] of the phenomenon is 5 to 6 meters and the phenomenon is stationary above the car. The car leaves the city quickly but a little further finds the phenomenon in front of the vehicle: a triangle with the same type of light on the circumference came to be added to the circle. The triangle is equilateral 10 side meters approximately and altitude from 10 to 15 meters. The phenomenon accompanied the vehicle which ran to approximately 80 km/h while adapting at the speed and that on several km. During a change of direction the object accelerated and moved away, the witnesses then specified that it had the shape of a boomerang. In the same time crenel, and on the same road, another couple in another car describes the phenomenon with a similarity of terms completely surprising and described the same evolutions compared to the vehicle. This phenomenon could not be explained.

Case ID: 1117 edit: 1117

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