Incident · 30 May 1989 · La Neuvelle-lès-Lure, Haute-Saône, France
Three game wardens on night patrol watch lights zigzag at great speed
Also known as Neuvelle-lès-Lure 1989
Three game wardens (gardes-chasse) on a night patrol in the Haute-Saône in May 1989 watched a set of three bright lights that hovered, shot upwards in zigzags, returned and left again in silence. GEIPAN ruled out the military jet that flew over soon after and could not identify the lights.
Source: GEIPAN (CNES), case 1989-05-01176, classified D (unexplained)
Facts and claims
- claimed At about 11.15 pm on 30 May 1989 three game wardens on a surveillance round saw three projector-like lights giving off very bright flashes; after some twenty seconds motionless they shot up vertically at very high speed in a zigzag, came back over the witnesses, stopped at their starting point, showed a red light in the middle and left again, changing direction several times. Source: cnes-geipan.fr (archived)
- documented A Jaguar fighter passed shortly afterwards but could not be confused with the silent phenomenon; inquiries at the nearby air base could not confirm the sighting, and GEIPAN classifies it D. Source: cnes-geipan.fr (archived)
Connected files
Organizations
- GEIPAN (CNES, France) (investigated by)
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